Great, we're doomed now!

Golza's enormous foot slammed into the ground, causing countless crystals to shatter with a teeth-grinding sound, and the entire cavern trembled under the monster's brute force.

"Roar--!"

Its mountain-like body charged forward with an aura of crushing everything in its path.

Facing this terrifying behemoth from a first-person perspective, Masaki Keigo felt unprecedented pressure. He took a deep breath, clenched his teeth, and gripped the control stick tightly with both hands.

Is this the scene Ye Shousuo witnessed?

But now I can't ask anyone for help; I can only rely on myself!

We're not little kids, there's nothing to be afraid of!

"Don't underestimate humans!"

He roared, and the underground shark's head instantly rose, unleashing a blinding white beam that shot straight at Golza's chest!

However, the anticipated explosion did not occur. The gnarled, dark brown vines on Golza's chest suddenly bulged up, as if sensing something, and intertwined into a dense armor. The beam of light hitting the vines was like a stone thrown into the sea; it only made the phosphorescent light emitted by the vines more eerie before being completely absorbed!

"What?!" Masaki Keigo's pupils shrank.

Before he could react, the vines that had absorbed the energy suddenly brightened, and the pale green light whip brought with it a fierce wind, its tip suddenly lashing out and striking Gaiozak's armor hard!

Crack!

A blinding spark exploded, leaving deep burn marks on the armor plates. The machine shook violently, and the shrill alarms were unsettling.

"The beam attack is ineffective? Damn it!" Masaki felt the vibration and knew that the ranged attack was probably unreliable.

The monster in front of me might not be immune to the rays, but my underground sharks don't have enough power.

He steeled himself and pushed the lever to its limit: "There's no other way!"

The Gaiozak engine roared as if overloaded, and the massive mechanical shark suddenly lunged forward. Its two forelimbs, which were located between its fins and feet, looked comical but actually supported its enormous weight. When it rotated, it could unleash tremendous torque that was difficult for modern technology to explain. Thus, the steel behemoth, which was tens of meters long, could be seen "leaping" for a moment.

The thrusters spewed out high-heat exhaust flames!

Georzak charged headlong into Golza without fear. Just before they were about to collide, Masaki swiftly manipulated the shark's head, causing the massive spiral drill bit to spin wildly at an unprecedented speed, viciously chiseling towards Golza's relatively vulnerable waist!

Golza seemed to be trying to dodge, but the shark's sudden acceleration while airborne was unexpected, and he ended up being hit.

laugh--!

With a piercing metallic scraping sound, the drill successfully pierced the monster's tough skin, splattering dark red blood and shattered plant tissue everywhere!

It's like the debris that overflows when a lumberjack uses a chainsaw to cut down a large tree, only on a scale thousands of times larger.

Golza let out a painful howl, his massive body staggering from the sudden, intense pain.

"It's working!" Masaki's spirits lifted, and he seized the opportunity to continue increasing the pressure.

Taking advantage of its low center of gravity, Gaiozak went full throttle, charging at Golza like a real bull, trying to pierce its internal organs or force it back!

However, Golza was only momentarily caught off guard and suppressed. Once he regained his footing, he immediately used his arms to grip the drill bit and forcefully stop its rotation. He then lunged forward, pushing the underground shark back dozens of meters.

Masaki Keigo was shocked and realized that he had underestimated these monsters.

—Actually, the design concept and basic structure of the subterranean shark are quite good. If its full potential is developed, it can compete with the enhanced Golza.

The problem is that the shark in the "original work" appears later in the story, and Masaki Keigo can even access stone statue fragments, so the alien technology and monster corpses preserved by TPC are naturally no problem either. That monster, Gaiozak, uses a lot of advanced technology and can even make Tiga feel troubled.

The current shark is still just a prototype. Although it doesn't have any design flaws, it ultimately lacks "stats," with both its defense and attack being a bit weak... while the enhanced Golza is already considered to be quite powerful among ordinary monsters.

"Ugh!" Masaki Keigo was almost thrown out of the driver's seat by the huge inertia. Fortunately, the seat belt and anti-G suit helped him. As soon as he raised his head, he saw the monster's ferocious appearance so close to him in the window, and his heart couldn't help but clench hard.

"...No, that's not enough!"

Although it hasn't been proven reliable, at this point we have no choice but to take the risk and give it a try.

Ka!

laugh--

A large amount of steam gushed out from the joints, startling Golza and causing him to slow his pace slightly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the subterranean shark suddenly "unfolds" its streamlined, slender body, raises its tail to extend its hind limbs, and rotates its left and right forelimbs to extend further from its body. The armor on its "membrane" is ejected, revealing its hidden hands.

It's like he transformed from a shark into a lizard.

In this four-legged stance, the drill, along with its head, suddenly jerked upwards, deflecting Golza's claws and delivering a powerful upward impact—

Bang!

"Oh oh oh oh oh!"

Gaiozak, resembling a bipedal lizard, pressed its entire weight onto Golza, using its powerful tail and hind legs to force the monster to collide with it.

Because its abdomen contains a large number of winches used to crush rocks, it is essentially using its body of thorns to scrape at its enemies.

"Roar! Roar!"

Golza swung its claws, trying to swat at the "lizard" on its body, but it couldn't exert any force due to the angle.

Under the combined impact and stinging sensation, Golza was forced to retreat repeatedly until he tripped over a huge crystal and fell backward with a loud thud, causing the entire cavern to shake once again.

Lucky you!

Without hesitation, Masaki manipulated Gaiozak to lower its head, the drill spinning wildly as it aimed at the fallen monster once more, preparing to deliver a brutal blow to its vitals.

However, in that very instant—

call!call!

Several thicker, dark brown vines suddenly sprouted from both sides of Gaiozak!

Like giant, living pythons, they nimbly and swiftly coiled around the mechanical shark's leg joints and propellers!

"What?!" Masaki was shocked and frantically pushed the control stick, but the shark was just a machine after all. Once a foreign object was inserted into its joints, its mobility would be greatly restricted. Moreover, it was made of the extremely tough Zigela Vine. The machine was locked in place and could not move for a while.

Golza, who had fallen to the ground, had already stood up, with thick vines attached to his back, the other end of which was covered with the bodies of underground sharks.

"Roar!" the monster roared in victory.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still feel its pure joy:

Actually, when it first came here, it was frightened by the underground sharks and Masaki, thinking that they were deliberately lying in ambush waiting for it to come to it... Its initial setbacks were also due to its lack of courage.

However, after this encounter, it has determined that this strange machine is no match for it at all!

Humans? Utterly vulnerable.

It is invincible as long as the Giant of Light is not around!

Golza lowered his head, and a chilling dark red light gathered in the energy organ on his forehead—

hum!

A thick, enhanced ultrasonic ray shot out and slammed into the abdomen of the unavoidable Gaiozak!

boom!!!

The violent explosion ripped off large sections of armor, and the impact and heat wave hit the inside of the machine. Sparks flew from the main control panel, and half of the screen went black instantly. Masaki was electrocuted and nearly fainted.

Beep beep beep!

The piercing alarm turned into a continuous, long wail, the power output reading plummeted, and the control lever lost its feedback.

"Ugh!" Masaki slumped back in his seat, disoriented by the shockwave, his ears ringing.

Golza roared as it stood up, its massive claws grabbing the powerless Gaiozak, which was entangled in vines. Its chest glowed, and its arms seemed to swell up, easily lifting the 40,000-ton mechanical creation off the ground.

The subterranean shark traced a long arc through the air, and under the monster's accumulated rage, it slammed into the golden pyramid!

boom--! ! !

The deafening impact echoed through the hollow.

Gaiozak collided violently with the pyramid wall, its skeletal structure twisting directly, while the pyramid itself "flickered" as the force field maintaining its existence began to weaken.

Wow~

The shark slid heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and could no longer move.

Golza's eyes flickered, and he walked over step by step, stomping his legs several times to mercilessly crush the chest of the underground shark. Then he looked at the pyramid that was as tall as himself.

shuh~

The vines coiled around it, and strands of golden light were instantly extracted and gathered into the energy organs on Golza's body, causing it to roar wildly.

...As the last ray of golden light was pulled away by the vines, the majestic pyramid, like a sandcastle without support, instantly turned into countless points of light and dissipated into the void, revealing the presence preserved inside—five enormous stone statues.

The four statues are giant stone figures in different poses, standing like pillars of heaven, majestic and solemn.

Beside them stood a stone statue resembling a komainu (guardian dog), its body slightly bowed in a guarding posture. This was none other than Gedi, the ancient komainu monster that Ye Shou had once seen.

Golza's gaze was immediately drawn to the statues, especially the four giants.

The distant memories awakened, and the ferocity that had been suppressed by Ultraman Bayeri reignited. It let out a low growl and strode forward. With a casual swing of its huge claws, it slammed the Gedi statue blocking its path to the ground, sending stone chips flying everywhere.

Without stopping, its thick tail swept across with a fierce wind, knocking down the tallest giant statue in the center, which crashed to the ground with a dull thud.

"Roar~!"

Golza roared triumphantly, gathering his strength as a dark red light shone from his forehead. A destructive ray began to condense, its target aimed directly at the fallen giant statue!

--call out!

A thin laser beam shot out from the wrecked remains of an underground shark, striking Golza precisely on its eyelids, creating a small burst of sparks that caused the monster to swing its claws to shield itself.

It's Masaki Keigo!

Dragging a bloodied, broken leg, he crawled out of the severely damaged cockpit with unimaginable difficulty. His expression was obscured by his blood-stained mask; all that could be seen was his stubbornly holding up a specially made Hyper rifle.

Masaki felt that his condition was not good. Compared with ordinary people, his body was undoubtedly much stronger, but now even lifting a pistol felt extremely heavy. Everything in his vision was blurry, and it seemed that he would faint if he was distracted even slightly.

Even so, he still felt very lucky:

It's lucky that you survived!

"You... are dead!"

Masaki smiled happily, even though he knew he wouldn't survive, at least he had bitten Golza in the process:

The laser just now was actually a locator that can be implanted under the skin. Ye Shou will find this monster sooner or later... and then it won't be able to escape!

"Roar!"