Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 264 The Puppet Master

"Whoosh!"

In the underground passage, the young doctor hurriedly stepped through puddles, glancing behind him while taking out his phone to make a call.

"It's me... Come save me quickly! Now! That monster is coming! If I die, you won't get anything!"

"Click!"

As the puddles froze and a biting chill crept up from behind, the young doctor's face grew even more terrified. He scrambled and rolled as he desperately ran toward the light of the exit ahead.

"Don't come any closer!"

"Hey, hey," the middle-aged bounty hunter appeared in the light, "there was no indication beforehand that this guy was going to kill you. A dopant that can freeze the entire building... that little bit of money won't be enough!"

Price is not an issue!

The young man completely lost his composure, his face slightly distorted with extreme panic, and he ran behind the old man's face, panting heavily.

"If we can handle this guy, I'll also try to arrange for your son to be transferred to another hospital! I know a lot of virologists!"

"I hope you're not lying to me."

The middle-aged man frowned as he completed his transformation, and looked in a deep voice at the hybrid monster that was walking towards him from the other side, accompanied by freezing cold air.

They're not from the same system to begin with, and the other side has such a troublesome special ability. If he makes a mistake, he might end up like the frozen building in the news.

This money is really hard to get.

"I'll stop him first, let's get out of here quickly!"

The middle-aged man's face was grave. He shouted, "Equip your gear and buckle it!" and his knightly form transformed.

"Run away!"

"Set!"

Assemble!

"It's up to you!"

The young doctor was already in a hurry to get away, so he didn't care about the old man's face and ran out of the underpass.

The sunlight and warm air outside seemed to bring him a new life, but before he could recover, the cold air approached from behind him once again.

It's so fast...

"Useless! Is this even considered a level 4 knight? No wonder he couldn't save his son!"

"Click click click!"

The ice crystals formed from the fog spread rapidly, and by the time the young doctor was cursing and trying to escape, he had already completely lost his chance.

The surroundings had completely transformed into a world of ice and snow.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Seeing that he could not break through, the young doctor was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground and looked back in despair at the glacial dopant that had reappeared.

"You're Ishibori, right? It was indeed my fault back then, I was wrong, but why did you have to come at that time? I was about to become the director!"

How about this? I'll give you the position... Didn't you want to publish papers? My uncle is the editor-in-chief of a journal!

"call!"

The glacial dopant did not respond, and the next moment a fierce burst of cold air was released, instantly turning the young doctor into an ice statue.

Even with the condensation of water vapor, the young doctor's face still showed lingering fear.

"Something seems to have happened inside!"

Street intersection.

Hiroko Asami drove with Natsukawa to keep watch, and before the young doctor appeared, they got out of the car and headed to the passage.

"Kaminaga, you're right, this person really does have something wrong with him, that's why he's being targeted..."

"Let me go," Natsukawa said, pulling back Hiroko Asami, who was rushing to transform. "You'd better stay here."

"Why?" Hiroko Asami gritted her teeth. "Do you think I'm weak?"

"Isn't that right? He's only a level 3 knight, and he doesn't even have any powerful equipment."

"Starting at level 3 is already pretty impressive! If I hadn't been stuck in dungeons for half a year, I..."

"I'm serious."

Natsukawa ignored Hiroko Asami's explanation, tightened his fingers, and got out of the car with a furrowed brow to equip the Magnum.

"Leave this to me."

"Kaminaga..."

Hiroko Asami was momentarily dazed.

Watching Xia Chuan transform into the Extreme Fox from behind, it felt like stepping back in time to the time when Ultraman transformed and flew away from Earth.

"SET!"

Magnum!

"READY FIGHT!"

The knight's armor assembly, with its crimson eyes, fox-ear-shaped head, and the red and white ribbons fluttering behind it, pulled Hiroko Asami's thoughts back to reality.

"Go for it, Kaminari!"

"It's over!"

The middle-aged man broke through the ice to enter the scene, punched the wall in frustration, and looked at the glacial hybrid with fury.

"You're that guy named Ishibori, right?"

"He is not Ishibori."

Xia Chuan followed from the exit of the passage.

"No matter how clever the disguise, it can't change the fact that he has lost his self-awareness. What you obtained should be a manipulation memory, right?"

"Huh? What are you talking about, Kaminari? When did I...?"

The middle-aged man, puzzled, deactivated his transformation and was about to explain when he realized that Xia Chuan wasn't even looking at him.

"No wonder he was once a police elite."

The short-haired policewoman walked past the frozen young doctor, wearing high heels and an office lady dress with a trench coat over it. She was playing with a Gaia memory in her hand, and her gaze toward Xia Chuan was filled with curiosity and a hint of doubt.

"Hiroko suspects me because of you, right? But now that you know the truth, why didn't you stop me? Maybe I would have let this guy go."

"Will you let him go?"

Xia Chuan's gaze lingered briefly on the ice man.

This young doctor was the mastermind behind the hospital incident a few years ago. His motivation for being promoted and having his colleague killed by the United Daily News was only part of the reason; the real cause was the discovery of human experimentation.

He's not good enough to save someone like that.

"Hand over the memory; there's still time," Xia Chuan said, shifting his gaze to the short-haired policewoman. "Revenge complete; you should be satisfied now."

"It's not over yet!"

The short-haired policewoman chuckled and stood behind the Glacier Dopant.

"Indeed, the whole thing started because of these guys, but they weren't the ones who drove Ishibori to his death. If it was just a frame-up, Ishibori wouldn't be so fragile!"

That guy was just too concerned about the city and his patients. If anyone had been willing to stand up for him and support him back then, how could things have come to this?!

"Hey," the middle-aged man's eyelids twitched, "what do you mean? Could it be...?"

"That's right! I'm going to destroy the hospital, destroy this city!"

"Puppeteer!"

The short-haired policewoman tilted her head back, pressed a Gaia memory chip, and inserted it into the bio-interface that appeared under her chin with intense hatred. Suddenly, she particled and merged into the back of the Glacier Dopant.

Even more intense snow and ice blanketed the underground passage.

The cold air, which had been spreading very slowly, suddenly seemed to turn into a typhoon.

"call--!"

"This woman..."

The man's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly reassembled his transformation form, using the transformation barrier to withstand the impact of the cold wave.

"Are all dopants this powerful?"

"It's essentially using two Gaia Memory chips, so it's no longer a typical doped chip."

Xia Chuan was much calmer.

He had previously wondered how the glacial dopant could freeze the building, but now it seems it was all because of the short-haired policewoman.

This woman's resentment caused her memory to be used beyond its proper capacity.

Inserting the memory directly into the body modification interface without a driver will indeed have this effect.

However, the side effects of memory loss will also increase significantly.

Gaia's memories react strongly to negative emotions such as anger and hatred, causing the user to lose control and eventually become a complete monster.

Shiori Hiraki can be said to have been almost completely infiltrated by memory.

It's probably too late to turn back.

"Oh no!" The middle-aged man suddenly realized that he couldn't find the Glacier Dopant through the ice. His voice was anxious as he said, "That guy must have gone to the hospital! Kaminari?"

The cold wave froze, and Xia Chuan disappeared without a trace, leaving only Uncle Face trapped inside the thick ice.

……

Daejeon Hospital.

The short-haired policewoman, now a glacial hybrid, habitually stood on the edge of the rooftop, the howling wind making her feel as if she had returned to 10 years ago.

On the day we left the country, we parted in a similar place, where we could see the city and the sea, and the wind was very strong.

"Ishibori...this world isn't as wonderful as you think. It's the same everywhere. It's better to destroy it..."

"The Gaia Memory brings more than just power. You only see your own strength, but you don't see that you are turning into a monster."

Xia Chuan walked up the stairs to the rooftop, the Lost Driver on his waist automatically put on, and after inserting the Gale Memory, he quickly put on the Green Knight Suit.

At the same time, the sky changed drastically, and a spacetime storm brought up swirling thunderclouds, but before they could take shape, they dissipated into nothingness.

The level 6 knight skipped the intermediate step.

"It's you again," the short-haired policewoman's eyes flashed with silver light, and a chilling aura erupted from her as she chuckled. "Are you pitying me? You're clearly a Level 5 Extreme Fox, yet you think you can fight with this half-baked system?"

"Click click click!"

"Whoosh!"

The green knight's figure flashed through the cold wind, appearing almost instantly in front of the short-haired policewoman. The bursting cold air stopped abruptly, and the Gaia Memory that had exploded on the short-haired policewoman's chest dissipated like bubbles.

"Bang!"

The memory fragments landed amidst the rising steam. The short-haired policewoman, losing her support, opened her mouth, staggered a step, and then collapsed to the ground.

His face was deathly pale, his eyes were sunken, and he had completely lost his previous charm.

Only a relieved smile appeared on his lips.

(End of this chapter)