Ultraman: Forced to become the Dark Boss

Chapter 29 UPC's Speculations about Monsters

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"hehe…"

"Why did it take so long to appear..."

"Why did you save so many people, but not my parents...?"

"Why am I still so weak..."

Wearing a UPIC uniform, Noi stands beside the ruins, watching the scene before her gradually overlap with the memories in her mind.

The same smoke filled the air, the same devastation was everywhere, the same sight was too unbearable to look at.

Equally bad, equally failed.

In a daze, in a fit of anger.

He saw a small figure appear before him.

That face was exactly like his own, with an expression almost identical to his own.

"You useless piece of trash."

"You weakling, yet you want to avenge your parents?"

"Just give up, there's no point in struggling anyway."

The little boy's once innocent and smiling face turned into one of hatred and ugliness, and he kept uttering vicious words.

Like a knife, it kept stabbing into Noi's heart.

"Do not…"

Noi suddenly roared hysterically.

"I'm not a piece of trash!"

He was like a madman, pressing his head hard, his body swaying erratically without any direction. Losing his mind, he quickly stepped on a piece of gravel and then fell to the ground uncontrollably!

"Do not…"

"Do not…"

Lying on the ground, letting the pervasive dust settle on my body.

Tears streamed down Noi's face, her eyes dull and lifeless, repeating herself over and over as if in a daze.

After a long while, Noi, who was lost in his own world, suddenly heard someone calling his name.

"Team Member Noi~"

He jolted awake, scrambling to his feet, quickly brushing the dust off his body, and wiping his face with his sleeve.

After he finished these actions, Muraka, who had come looking for her, appeared from around the corner of the ruins.

"Hey, you're right here..."

"Then why didn't you come out when I called you?"

"You don't answer my calls..."

Muraka walked over cautiously, her expression gradually turning unfriendly.

"It's nothing, I didn't notice."

Noi avoided Muraka's questioning and naturally avoided her gaze as she walked forward.

Is this guy crying?

Could it be that I misunderstood him?

Actually, he was also worried about senior Li Mana? ...

It's an illusion, it must be an illusion.

Such a cold-blooded and ruthless person, can he even cry?

Muraka made a face behind Noi's back.

They then followed him nonchalantly back to the location of Shenying-1.

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a few days later.

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"How is this possible? Such a powerful monster could actually be controlled by someone?!"

Inside the branch, Muraka saw Boden, Commander Kojima, Captain Ihara, and the Secret Book discussing something.

Shunling kept opening various videos as Borden requested.

There is the earliest Dinozor, and the recently destroyed Zetton.

After listening for a while, she couldn't contain her excitement, slammed her hand on the table, and loudly questioned.

"However, this might be the truth, although this is just my guess..."

Borden was startled by Muraka's actions, and not only him, but Kojima and Ihara also turned their gazes in that direction.

Li Zhenna didn't react much; her face was sickly pale, and she looked very weak.

However, Ihara's gaze was full of profound meaning.

"Eh..."

"Smith Marseille".

Muraka realized how rash her actions had been. She sat down awkwardly, shrank back, and lowered her head, revealing only a small part of her fair neck.

Borden, being a nice guy, smiled gently at Muraka despite his injuries, though Muraka obviously didn't see it—her face was already buried in the table in embarrassment.

"When Dinozor was destroyed, there was no residue left behind. The UPC logistics department, which was responsible for collecting the monster corpses at the time, had reported this problem."

"This also makes us want to find some answers from the monster's corpse, including scientific research, which has completely stalled."

"First of all, the firepower of the defense forces is not enough to completely reduce Dinozo to ashes."

The island commander nodded slightly with a serious expression.

However, it contrasts sharply with his sparse hair.

The Imperial Secret Book kept taking notes; after all, he was following a leader who was sometimes unreliable, so he figured he might as well write down all the useful information…

"I initially thought it might be due to the monster's constitution, causing its corpse to quickly dissipate and decompose after death, but it's clearly not the case."

"Please take a look, everyone."

Boden gestured to Shunling to turn on the video playback.

He paused the moment Dinozor was destroyed, the instant the explosion occurred.

What appeared before everyone's eyes was the black and red flames from the explosion, as well as things that looked like fragments.

“There are clearly the remains of Dinozore’s body here.”

Bourdain, as if giving a lecture, held a short, silver-white stick and pointed to a noticeable "piece of debris" at the edge of the explosion.

"However, our logistics personnel found no wreckage..."

After saying this, Ihara remained silent.

He dared not draw a conclusion, but he was certain there was definitely something wrong here.

"Even so, we cannot conclude that the monster has a controller. There may be other reasons for the disappearance of the body. Besides, the idea that the monster is being manipulated by someone is still too strange."

Commander Kojima shook his head; it seemed that more compelling evidence was needed to convince him.

Bourdain seemed to have anticipated this; he gently clicked play, and the video continued to move forward.

After the broadcast ended, Borden added, "In addition to Dinozoll, four more monsters appeared and fought against Dinozoll."

We can hypothesize that Dinozore is a sheep, the devourer is a tiger, and the other three monsters can be considered wolves. They can also form a single monster, but the specific reason is unknown; it's unclear whether they were originally one entity or are related.

Both the wolf and the tiger wanted to eat the sheep. The tiger successfully swallowed sheep number one and number two. Then, the tiger was forced back by the pack of wolves and entered another dimension. I will explain the concept of this other dimension later.

Borden paused slightly, noticing that everyone was listening, before continuing, "Then, Jormungandr emerged from the seabed. Although it was powerful, it was ultimately eaten by wolves."

Here's the important part: Dinozoll, who was destroyed by the defense forces, reappears and fights alongside the flying monsters that were once his enemies.

At the same time, the Silver Dragon, currently the strongest monster outside of the Demon Dragon on record, also appeared. Disturbingly, the Silver Dragon clearly belongs to the wolf faction as well.

"Jörmungandr was subsequently destroyed and there has been no sign of its reappearance."

However, no remains of Jormungandr were found, leading me to make a bold assumption that Jormungandr might also be among the wolves.

Also, the tiger didn't appear this time, for reasons unknown, but perhaps it's related to Jormungandr carrying radioactive material…”

"This time, no remains of Zetton were produced either. All of this indicates that once the monsters belonging to the wolf faction kill other monsters, they will revive, control, or assimilate them."

After making what could be considered a definitive guess, Borden went on to explain why he suspected the monster was being manipulated by a dark force.

"The Devourer has previously opened up a different dimension, proving that it usually hides in that dimension. I have already started analyzing these fluctuations, and I may have results soon."

"However, the monsters in the wolf pack appeared without any spatial fluctuations, unlike when they appeared directly from another dimension... This means that the monsters originally belonged to this world. So, what allowed them to appear out of thin air? There must be some reason."

"Moreover, starting with Jormungandr and Zetton, the wolf pack monsters' objectives have clearly been exposed."

They are constantly assimilating new monsters, as if they are constantly accumulating power.

And coincidentally, after the monsters appear, the wolf faction monsters always seem to appear very quickly as well…

"This makes me suspect that after the monsters appeared, someone or some creature transmitted a message to the wolf camp, allowing them to appear on the battlefield so quickly."

After Bourdon finished speaking, the UPIC team members and Commander Kojima's expressions turned somewhat grim.

"You mean, someone released a monster? Or rather, someone is on the same side as the monster!"

Kojima's face darkened as he asked.

If that's the case, then someone has betrayed humanity, which is truly terrifying.

"Perhaps they're not human. After all, if there are cosmic monsters, it seems quite normal for there to be aliens as well..."