Great, we're doomed now!

The couple, who are extremely well-known but have gradually faded from the public eye in recent years, did not show much expression on their faces. They simply looked up at the distant mountain peaks shrouded in dark clouds and pursed their lips slightly.

The Fujiwara family stepped out of the black luxury car behind them. The Fujiwara couple, who were theoretically in important positions, had been unusually free of work for the past few days, allowing them to come here with their family.

The three sisters were in an orderly fashion. Mengye was the last to jump out of the car and closed the door behind her. They all looked unwell, carrying the weariness typical of a long journey, but no one said much. Perhaps the harsh reality prevented them from speaking in a relaxed tone.

Fashion designer and producer Fusa leaned out of the car behind; she had been invited as a relative of Professor Agasa.

Following her were many researchers and their families. Most scholars stayed at TPC headquarters to stick to their posts, such as Dr. Agasa, but some simply couldn't endure it any longer.

Ye Shou did not make things difficult for these people. He evacuated them along with most of the scholars' families and dispersed them to various shelters. Those who came to the Su Na Mountain base were either of great value or had close ties with Ye Shou or the Jiu family.

Shirogane Kei's father and older brother also got off the car with serious and tense expressions. Then, Yotsuya Miko's mother walked at the back of the group, holding her younger brother's hand... Naturally, the Yuki family couple and their eldest son were also among them.

Chika walked in the middle of the group, her pace slower than usual. Her gaze wasn't fixed ahead, but rather she turned her head slightly, as if searching for something.

But she looked back several times, and each time it wasn't the person she was looking for.

She finally stopped in front of a large alloy door, reluctant to go inside.

Her unusual behavior caught the attention of her parents, but the Fujiwara couple were both intelligent people who knew their daughter very well. So, just by looking at Chika's furrowed brows, they understood what she was struggling with.

The two looked at each other and sighed in unison, both helpless... Qianhua clasped her hands together, her knuckles turning slightly white.

Her gaze swept past the crowd walking inside, landing on the slowly moving "black line" in the distant sky.

But Chika knew it wasn't actually slow; it was just too far away, so far that it gave people the illusion of being very quiet... Her keen intuition told her that the black line would inevitably cover everything in the world sooner or later!

Suddenly, Chika felt a warmth in her hand—

Moeha walked up from behind, and without saying anything, simply reached out and took Chika's hand.

The older sister turned her head to look at her younger sister. Meng Ye's face showed an unusual unease, and her eyes were not as lively as usual. Instead, they were somewhat lonely, as if she didn't know how to start a conversation.

Chika's lips moved as if she wanted to say something to comfort her, but she stopped before she could speak... because she realized that she probably had the same expression on her face.

"Don't do that."

Liuli's voice came from behind, clear and melodious with distinct pronunciation, giving off a rather dignified feeling, and could be heard clearly in the quiet passage.

Chika turned around, and Ruri was standing a few steps behind her. She wasn't wearing her usual maid outfit, but had changed into a dark long coat and tied her long hair into a ponytail at the back of her head, making her look more heroic than usual.

The maid's expression was calm, but Chika noticed that Ruri's fingers were also curling slightly, as if she was subconsciously enduring something.

“It’s precisely in times like these that we need to stay calm,” Liuli continued, her tone steady as if she didn’t care at all. “Wait, and then hold onto hope.”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over Qianhua and then over Mengye, finally settling on the familiar faces who had also stopped behind her.

Lucy, Asuna, Miko, Kei... none of them rushed into the spacious domed space inside; instead, they all hesitated.

"We can't go like this... We have to get underground quickly, who knows what will happen next."

Liuli withdrew her gaze, her voice softening slightly: "I know what you're thinking, and so am I... However, what happens after that is not something we can interfere with."

Qianhua looked at her and suddenly felt that some words were stuck in her throat and she couldn't say them.

She had known Liuli for a long time, but she had never realized so clearly as at this moment that there was something they shared that didn't need to be said.

It wasn't a competitive spirit born from any particular person, but something deeper, like a resonance.

"I know... Ruri, these words must have been very difficult for you, right?"

Liuli's eyebrows twitched slightly, but she didn't say anything.

“If you could, you would go with him even if it was hell ahead,” Chika continued. “But you stayed here because he made you do it… and you will never let him have any worries.”

Qianhua seems a little different today?

That overly serious demeanor is really unsettling!

Seriously, comedic characters should be laughing and joking all the time, why make it so serious... Even I can't help but laugh myself.

Her eyes stung a little, but Liuli never showed her weakness to anyone other than Ye Shou, so she silently endured it and gently exhaled after a moment of silence.

"You're right. Although Lord Ye Shou is powerful, he is not invincible. Although I don't want to admit it, everyone here, including myself, as well as the master and madam... is like an Achilles' heel."

The best we can do for him now is not to go to the battlefield with him, or to sacrifice ourselves for him in a self-righteous way, but to protect ourselves and greet him with a smile when the sun rises.

We must protect this home he cherishes most.

Liuli said this.

As Chika looked at her, she suddenly realized that the Ruri in front of her was somewhat different from the maid she remembered.

The usually calm, decisive, and meticulous Ruri seemed surprisingly gentle at this moment. Unexpectedly, this made Chika feel even closer to her.

So she walked over and placed her hands over Liuli's hands.

"Speaking of which, we've known each other for a really long time..."

Chika looked at Ruri, her beautiful eyes reflecting the maid's slight surprise: "But at this moment, I feel that we have truly become best friends... no, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that we are sisters."

Regardless of how Liuli reacted, Mengye, standing to the side, wore a rather strange expression.

"Alright, how long are you going to keep up this act?"

While others might be hesitant to speak up, Lucy didn't hold back and said directly, "No matter how strange your empathy may be... now is not the time to talk about this!"

That makes sense—the two of them instinctively let go of each other's hands.

At the gate, the eldest sister, Fujiwara Toyomi, was still waving to her younger sisters to hurry over, while the others were also getting a little anxious.

...Guided by staff, the crowd walked down a long corridor. The overhead lights gradually transitioned from warm yellow to cool white, and the sound of footsteps was particularly clear in the enclosed space.

Every few meters along both sides of the passageway, there is a heavy alloy door with a dark red sealing strip around the edge of the door frame, ready to be closed at any time.

At the end of this road, the original alloy gate was still open. Through the crack in the open door, one could see the black line getting closer and closer in the distance, like a curtain that was closing...

Looking down from space, it looks like spilled ink spreading across a blue tabletop.

Moon!

At a depth undetectable even at the TPC base, a large section of the dark gray rock layer had been hollowed out, forming an irregular dome-shaped space. The walls were covered with silver-white metal plates, and fine blue light bands were embedded everywhere, flickering slowly in the darkness.

A crystal-like cube floats in the very center of the space, its surface as smooth as a mirror, with countless fine streams of light constantly moving inside, like some kind of precision instrument in operation.

This is the core of the virtual world where Ye Shou is stationed!

Kayaba Akihiko's legacy had long been used by Ye Shou as a supercomputer, but now it has suddenly lost contact with Earth, and the massive data flow has suddenly dropped to almost zero, forcing the internal administrator AI to personally search for bugs.

But she soon realized that it wasn't a hardware problem, but rather an external intrusion...

hum!

The streams of light spread outward from the core of the cube, passing through the transparent outer shell and transforming into light particles that were difficult to detect with the naked eye, silently dispersing in all directions.

Like ghostly particles, they passed through the rock layers, then drifted across the empty universe, heading towards Earth...

In a realm beyond human sight, Kayaba Yui stood in the void, her long black hair swaying gently in the weightless environment. Her figure was semi-transparent, a projection woven from light, and through her bright eyes, one could see the blue planet being swallowed by dark clouds in front of her.

Such a beautiful thing is now undoubtedly being invaded!

She gazes silently upon humanity's home planet. As an intelligent life form, she can sense the evil and danger lurking within... but protecting humanity and ensuring its happiness is her mission!

With a thought, a beam of light pierced through the clouds, standing out starkly against the dark background. It crashed into the air and scattered, transforming into countless tiny specks of light that spread along the ground, even penetrating the outward-spreading black matter…

Deep within the shelter at the foot of Mount Sukana, the door to the communications room was half-open.

Liuli sat at the control panel, the screen in front of her displaying a dense stream of data, mostly red error messages interspersed with scattered green signals flickering at the edges. She swiped her finger across the screen, zooming in on several intermittent signal sources, trying to extract usable information from them.

Unfortunately, most of the signal was lost halfway through, leaving only some intermittent fragments that could not be pieced together to form a complete picture.

Although she had confidence in Ye Shou, she also wanted to verify it herself with her own eyes!

At the other end of the corridor, Chika sat in her room, holding a tablet computer... She stared at the ceiling for a while, then looked down at the tablet and swiped her finger across the screen twice.

I opened one document, closed it, then opened another, my fingertips hovering above the keyboard, hesitant to touch it...

At this moment, the sky outside was completely covered by dark clouds. There was no sunlight and no light source in sight. Only a faint, almost imperceptible ray of light pierced through from the edge of the horizon, as if it were slowly closing in.

Qianhua put down the tablet and was about to turn around and go back to bed when the tablet screen suddenly lit up, displayed a few lines of garbled text, and then stabilized, showing a loading indicator.

She picked up the tablet and saw a progress bar appear below the indicator, moving slowly forward.

"Signal? In a place like this?"

Chika was surprised. Not to mention that the global Internet is being affected now, even under normal circumstances, there shouldn't be such a strong signal in a metal shelter deep underground!

A commotion arose in the corridor, with some people exclaiming softly. Chika immediately stepped out of her room and found several people gathered in the common area, while Ruri stood at the door of the communications room and glanced in their direction.

It turns out that some of the electronic devices have regained their connection, and the girls are now checking the outside situation through a live broadcast.

On the projection screen, the image is gradually becoming clearer...

It was an aerial view, taken from high above. In the center of the image was a desert with undulating sand dunes. The colors appeared somewhat grayish in the dim light, but in the center of the image were three very conspicuous figures moving rapidly.

And what they surrounded was the chief vanguard of darkness, the corrupted serpent of destruction!

The scene then shifted to another location:

Above the city, Tiga remained in his aerial form, like an unstoppable meteor streaking through the flock of flying dragons. Those twisted, dark red bodies were torn to shreds upon contact, scattering in all directions.

Through a quantum channel established by a lunar supercomputer, gaming headsets worldwide can receive this specific signal and project it in the form of virtual reality. It's like the whole world is watching a live stream!

The battle between Masaki and the others and the Black Dragon was released, followed by footage of Tiga protecting the city. People all over the world received this information, instantly dispelling the gloomy atmosphere that had enveloped the various shelters.

After all this was over, what appeared was a streak of light that constantly traversed various cities, swiftly annihilating all enemies it encountered!

The number and efficiency with which it annihilated monsters was simply unbelievable!

Only when the stream of light occasionally pauses does the beautiful inner workings of Ultraman Bayeri become apparent—

The eyes of the entire world and all of humanity are focused here!

People held their breath, their attention completely focused on the projection screen, and some even subconsciously took a half-step forward...

Inside the base, Qianhua stood behind the group, holding a tablet in her hand, and her emotions were stirred as she watched the scene unfold.

She lowered her head, her fingertips paused at the edge of the screen for a moment, then opened the document, and the characters on the keyboard began to appear on the screen rapidly, one by one!

Volume 11: To the Day of Destiny: Chapter 514: Ignition - Redstone Spark Tower! (4K)

The power from the abyss is no longer merely lurking in the Pacific Ocean; the black substance seeping from fissures around the world has begun to flow at an accelerated pace, as if guided by some powerful force, spreading recklessly along the continental shelf.

Meanwhile, the dark clouds covering the sky grew thicker and thicker, making it almost impossible for people to breathe.

...The TPC headquarters is no longer a command center, but an abandoned fortress.

The alarm lights flashed rapidly in the empty corridor, the red and white light casting shadows on the cold metal walls. The evacuation was in its final stage. Footsteps, engine noise, and communication commands mingled together. The entire building resembled a bleeding beast whose heart was about to stop beating... There was nothing that could be done about it.