Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 635 New System

"M-Uncle..."

Asuka Shin left Hojo Emu and the other person behind, and stammered as he approached the familiar yet unfamiliar figure in Victory Team casual clothes on the riverbank. His previously smug face was now full of nervousness.

"How many times have I told you, you brat?" Xincheng turned around, furious. "Stop calling me 'uncle'! I'm still young!"

"Is it you?"

Asuka Shin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly jumped onto Shinjo as if desperate.

"Where's your other self? Switch him back! Change him back!"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Shinjo pulled away Asuka Shin's wildly grabbing fingers, nearly getting hit in the core with a kick, and gasped for breath before quickly bending over and backing away.

"You brat, what's wrong with you?"

Before Asuka could continue to pester him, Shinjo immediately pulled a blank card from his pocket.

"I give up, he asked me to give this to you!"

"A card?" Asuka Shin took the blank card with suspicion, wondering what it meant.

"I didn't lie to you," Shinjo said calmly again. "This is proof of courage. You don't have to be afraid no matter what you encounter in the future."

"Whoosh!"

A flash of light, and the blank card was directly absorbed into the palm of the astonished Asuka Shin.

Although I couldn't quite understand what they were saying, the warmth I felt from my body was undeniable.

Just like the light of that time.

"Will I really be able to see my dad again?" Asuka Shin subconsciously looked at Shinjo.

"How would I know?" Shinjo waved his hand, turned around to face his teammates who came to support him, "Anyway, stay away from me in the future."

"New City!"

Horii greeted everyone as soon as he got off the fighter jet, but someone was faster than him. Nozue, who rarely participated in frontline combat, rushed to Shinjo's side immediately.

"What happened inside?" Ye Rui anxiously grabbed Shinjo's arm. "Where's Karen? Is Karen alright?"

"this……"

Shinjo thought of the girl who had turned into a monster.

Faced with Ye Rui's persistent questioning, he didn't know how to explain it.

"Is Karen important to you?"

"Karen is the designer of the game city system, a very talented and brilliant programmer," Nori said, her face pale. "We get along very well online, and I was planning to meet her here... Has something happened?"

"Have you ever considered that Karen might actually be that bio-computer?"

Xincheng hesitated for a moment before speaking tactfully.

"Quite a few people have already died here—the developers of the bio-computer Kallen, and those computer experts who were summoned. You should be on the next list..."

"Impossible, how could Karen be a biological computer?" Nori shook his head repeatedly, unable to accept it.

"That's the truth. You should be able to look it up yourself; that biological computer was named Karen E-90."

Patting Noriyuki on the shoulder, Shinjo continued to greet Horii and the others.

"Think carefully, don't keep living in the virtual world of the internet."

"Mr. Shinjo," Onoue Takumi, who had returned to the scene with Watari after investigating, looked unwell. "All the people who were brainwashed are dead; they are all brain dead."

"Are they all dead?"

Baosheng Yongmeng turned around with a start.

Even though Faibas had perished along with the game city, he couldn't help feeling angry.

His dream was to use the gaming world to heal the sick and save lives, but now it's being used to kill and even destroy the human world.

"The problem isn't the game, but the person who misused it." Shinjo blurted out unconsciously, then paused to realize that Natsukawa hadn't possessed him; it was just his own thought.

He was also influenced by Xia Chuan, but all of it was positive.

He has grown a lot without realizing it.

No wonder Shin Asuka calls him "uncle"—is it because he adopts the mindset of a Lypian elder?

"This is incredible," Horii said, walking around the riverbank. "It turns out that everything was a virtual world controlled by computers. It's a little scary that a biological computer could grow to this extent."

"That's what it's like to have consciousness and emotions; nobody likes to be manipulated."

Shinjo sighed and realized that only Horii, Nozue, and Vice Captain Munakata were present.

"Strange, where are Daigo and Rena? Why aren't they here?"

"Them," Horii replied casually, "some things have happened in Kumamoto, and Daigo and Rena went to investigate. We should go there after this is over."

After arranging the cleanup, Vice Captain Zongfang solemnly summoned everyone: "We've been dealing with a series of recent events, and even the final battle with the Lightning Man has to be temporarily postponed. The captain just sent a message that we all need to go to Kumamoto."

"Kumamoto?"

Xin Cheng's eyes twitched slightly, and some blurry images flashed through his mind again.

underground, giants, monsters...

Two stone statues standing in the underground space.

Xincheng, clutching his throbbing forehead, exclaimed in surprise.

appeared again.

He seemed to see a vision of the future.

"But why are there still giant stone statues?"

"What statue?" Horii turned around in confusion. "Speaking of statues, some of the sand from the giant statue that was destroyed by Golza was sent to headquarters for analysis. It is said that it has been reacting with abnormal vibrations these days. Daigo said it might be related to Kumamoto."

Xia Chuan slightly raised his head in his spiritual world.

There are indeed some giant stone statues hidden underground here in Ultraman Tiga's area, because there was a giant civilization during the ancient times. Ultraman Tiga, including the Spark Lens that turned Daigo into light, came from that time.

Like Daigo, the genius scientist Masaki Keigo, who possesses ancient genes, discovered one of the giant stone statues and is now likely searching for Daigo to unravel the mystery of Daigo's transformation into light.

It's impossible to say he wasn't interested at all; it's just that the power of the ancient civilization was indeed of little use to him.

The card system is his path to evolution.

To be honest, the source of these powers is still not very clear.

He hasn't yet determined which storyline he's in within "Ultraman Tiga," and he'll probably only find out fully once R'lyeh is unsealed.

Instead of studying these things, we should first set up the upgrade system for the knights.

This is far more real than the vague and ethereal power of giants.

With him as their anchor, the knights may not be able to reach heights lower than the Giant of Light.

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan's thoughts returned to the Faibas Monster Card in front of him. After making full preparations, he transformed it into a ball of light and integrated it into the existing Knight System.

It's like going from a makeshift operation to a formalized system; the system instantly becomes much more standardized.

As expected, Emu Hojo was the first to benefit, directly advancing to Rank 6 with his insights into the gaming world, becoming another D-rank life form after Saiji Fujiwara.

Next is the armor upgrade.

Xia Chuan retrieved the core data extracted by Horii and input it into the new system for automatic analysis.

He did not intend to develop a new armor system, but rather to upgrade the trainees' existing knight system.

Despite going further and further down the path of Ultraman evolution, he still doesn't think the Knight System is that bad.

What suits you best is the best.

Next, he will give each knight a path to heaven.

"Grow together, and improve with me."

Xia Chuan glanced at his own data panel.

90 times, perhaps because the bond wasn't strong enough, Hojo Emu's promotion only raised him 90 levels, a fraction of 2 levels.

We need more knights of higher rank.

(End of this chapter)