I'm in another world, and I start out transformed into Lancelot.

Purple and dark energy missiles collided and exploded wildly in the air, creating countless dazzling shock vortexes.

The sharp edge of the playing card sliced ​​into Bruton's dark pulse, producing a crackling sound like shattering glass; the energy wave of the explosion spread like ripples, instantly vaporizing the surrounding suspended debris.

The entire area seemed to be drawn into a hyperdimensional game, magnificent yet filled with destructive power.

The exchange of fire lasted for several seconds. Although Zeta's purple missiles had the upper hand, they were partially neutralized by Bruton's tenacious resistance.

After a brief respite from the initial clash, Bruton's buzzing sounded even more furious, clearly indicating that the real battle had escalated to a higher level.

"Wow wow wow!!!" The soybean ball display screen floating next to Rose was instantly flooded with dazzling stars!

It excitedly bounced in mid-air, "Although I've seen it in the materials, the live version is definitely a hundred times cooler!"

"Don't just watch the show," Rose tapped the bean ball on the head, making a cute little "thump" sound. The screen instantly turned into a pitiful emoticon.

"Remember to record all the data, and highlight the key parameters in red." Her fingers slid rapidly across the virtual screen in front of her, making remote adjustments. "We might be able to use this to improve equipment in the future."

At the same time, a gentle and clear AI prompt sounded in King Guqiao's cockpit: "Spatial interference signal reduced by 12%...15%.... Damage control in progress. Backup joint actuator ready to start."

Rose quietly adjusted King Joe's energy allocation behind the scenes, prioritizing the repair of the damaged body.

Gamma Future did not press its advantage.

Those diamond-like eyes suddenly turned to the edge of the battlefield—there, a huge building, its foundation completely stripped away by Bruton's earlier spatial fluctuations, was suspended tens of meters above the ground, teetering on the verge of collapse!

Countless rubble and broken steel bars, like raindrops frozen in amber, surround it, creating an absurd yet deadly scene.

It was as if Bruton only needed a thought to make the building, weighing tens of thousands of tons, crash into the potential evacuation area below, creating an unimaginable disaster!

"Oh no!" Yoko gasped softly in the cockpit, her fingers instinctively gripping the control stick tightly, her heart pounding in her throat. If that building were to crash, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Gamma Future suddenly loosened his clenched right fist, pointing his palm at the floating building in the air.

[Gamma Repair Beam!]

A soft, condensed beam of light, like liquid crystal, shot from his palm, gently enveloping the entire building and its scattered fragments.

As the beam of light enveloped them, the bricks, steel bars, and glass shards that were originally in a state of weightlessness and frozen in the air were gently held up and straightened as if by an invisible hand.

They began to follow the law of gravity, but instead of a sudden acceleration and crash, they fell back to the base in an incredibly precise and slow manner.

It was as if a gentle, invisible giant hand was carefully "putting" the building back into its original position!

Chapter 116 (3K) Light Particle Revolution - Great - Ze!

Even more miraculously, during those slow moments of descent, the massive gap at the base of the building, which had been brutally torn apart by spatial forces, was rapidly covered and filled with a glass-like azure photon energy.

The broken steel bars automatically extended and joined together, and the shattered concrete rapidly reassembled and mended itself as if time had reversed! The tiny fragments were drawn by the beam of light, like rivers flowing into the sea, flying precisely back to their original locations!

Yoko, a devoted fan in the cockpit, witnessed all of this. Her tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and she cheered from the bottom of her heart: "Sama!" Her voice was filled with boundless admiration.

Not far away, looking at the scene where the bottom of the building was perfectly repaired by photon energy, Rose subconsciously touched her chin, her eyes flashing with the light of a pure researcher.

"Hmm...should we try to get some of these light particles to study?" she murmured to herself.

If one could master this wondrous superpower and attach it to their Warlord or Bolt MX robot, they might gain a crucial asset in their fight against these space monsters.

The colorful emoticons on the soybean ball's screen froze for a moment, then it started swaying from side to side like a tantrum: "Whoa! Boss—! Stop thinking such a dangerous idea!! ()!"

Its voice trembled, "If Ultraman's core light particles were that easy to obtain, the world would definitely be on our wanted list! And little Zeta would definitely cry if she knew!"

After a moment's thought, Rose calmly abandoned the idea of ​​extracting light particles on-site. "Hmm... the technical challenges are indeed considerable..." She nodded slightly, but her gaze remained firmly fixed on the battlefield.

However, the scales of victory did not tip in that direction.

Just as Gamma Future Zeta was gaining a slight advantage in the dazzling magical duel and was about to press his advantage, the passion of a young warrior within him seemed to overwhelm a trace of caution.

He suddenly channeled his energy into his right leg, and his leg instantly shimmered with a dazzling purple light like a galaxy, clearly intending to deliver a devastating close-range kick to Bruton!

Sure enough! Bruton's round body may seem clumsy, but his reaction speed is actually beyond reason.

Faced with Zeta's fierce flying kick, it didn't even erect a solid spatial barrier to meet the attack head-on as it had done before. Instead, a fraction of a second before the enhanced kick was about to hit, its two antennae flashed strangely!

Like wiping away a small piece of eraser on a drawing paper, its image faded away without warning!

Zeta's all-out attack, powerful enough to shake mountains, grazed the spatial ripples left by Bruton's instant disappearance and violently kicked into the air!

"Oh no!" Zeta's massive body, having missed its kick, staggered forward a few steps due to inertia before barely managing to regain its balance.

But in this delicate gap where old forces have been exhausted and new forces have not yet emerged, the counterattack has arrived!

His diamond-like eyes suddenly caught the anomaly on the ground beneath his feet—the area that Bruton had "shattered" by dodging the shockwave had not collapsed into a pit, but instead suddenly melted like viscous, silently boiling asphalt.

A bottomless, distorted space filled with countless irregular rays of light unfolded beneath his feet without warning.

Zeta felt his feet suddenly sink, with nothing to hold onto, as if he had fallen into a bottomless quicksand trap and was sinking downwards in an instant.

In an instant, the giant's body almost completely disappeared beneath the ground.

The only thing still visible was his Ultraman face, with its strong features, now filled with astonishment and embarrassment.

Standing upright on the ground, it looked just like a hero's bust that "grew" out of the ground, truly a remarkable achievement.

“Zeta Sama—!!!” Yoko’s scream, filled with agonizing terror, ripped through the communication channel.

In the maintenance team's command room, the atmosphere, which had eased slightly due to the repair of the beam, suddenly plummeted to freezing point, and Captain Hebikura's pupils contracted sharply.

Bruton gave its opponent no chance to breathe, emitting a dull hum that sounded almost triumphant.

The enormous sponge ball made a nimble, short "glide" on the ground, completely out of character for its shape, and quietly floated directly above Zeta's immobile head!

The seemingly harmless, rhythmically flashing soft spikes on its body were now gathering a heart-stopping energy fluctuation, like a heavy, unyielding rock about to crush everything, about to smash down on that head that could not dodge!

A hair's breadth! Just as Bruton's downward momentum was about to begin!

King Joe's steel-like fist, carrying immense force and the roar of an engine, slammed into Bruton's bulky body from the side like a hammer of divine punishment!

The timing was absolutely perfect!

"Whoosh—!" Bruton's poised downward thrust was completely interrupted by this sudden, violent blow. He was blasted sideways by the enormous impact, carving a deep trench in the ground.

King Gyo landed steadily, his energy indicator light flashing firmly amidst the smoke. His massive body stood like the most reliable fortress, firmly blocking Zeta, whose head was the only part of his body visible.

Inside the cockpit, Yoko was breathing heavily, but her eyes were filled with relief at surviving the ordeal and an unprecedented determination.

[Current site injury is minor... Joint output peak is 112%... Energy channel buffering is normal...] ​​Jinguqiao's gentle and clear AI prompt sounded in the cabin, like the most stable reassurance.

The genius mechanic's timely adjustments and repairs behind the scenes turned into a life-saving miracle at this moment.

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[Enemy threat repositioning... Bruton's high-energy reaction is reaccumulating from the offset point... Danger level not yet cleared.]

Yoko instantly suppressed the lingering fear of her near-death experience, her fingers tightening on the joystick again, her gaze sharp as an eagle: "Cover Zeta-sama! Prepare to engage Bruton in the second round..."

Before the words were even finished, an even more violent burst of spatial energy suddenly exploded!

Bruton, sent flying by a punch, didn't go far, only creating some distance between itself. Its massive, sponge-like body was now violently trembling, its countless tiny pores seemingly breathing rapidly, emitting a hissing sound that made one's teeth ache.

The surrounding air, light, and even space itself began to distort and tear uncontrollably! It was clearly enraged.

Boom——!

Countless rubble, broken walls, and even twisted spiral-shaped metal structures were forcibly seized and compressed from all directions by invisible spatial forces.

Like a runaway meteor shower, it crashed down on the immobile Zeta with a piercing scream that tore at his eardrums, and on King Joe standing in front of him!

"Watch out!" King Gyu-chick crossed his massive alloy arms to protect his core and Zeta's head on his back. An energy barrier instantly expanded to its maximum extent on his body, emitting a heart-stopping buzz.

At the same time, a thin, almost transparent electromagnetic shield also covered them.

[Frontal impact energy exceeds threshold by 27%... Area shield generator overload... Damage rate of outer armor plates 3 and 7 is 15%...] Ai's report was still clear, but it carried an unprecedented sense of oppression.

"Ugh!" Yoko groaned under the intense impact, gritting her teeth to steady herself.

Behind her, Rose's fingertips danced across the floating holographic screen, leaving a blur of motion, her icy blue eyes focused with unprecedented concentration.

"Adjust the energy ratio! Prioritize core output and joint drive! If the shield can't hold, disperse and tough it out!!" Her voice was fast and urgent.

"Whoa!! Got it, boss! Emergency energy diversion! ()" The display screen of the soybean ball flashed codes wildly.

Amidst the chaotic, overwhelming bombing storm, Rose's keen eyes were fixed on Zeta, who was trapped deep in the crypt, with only his head and upper neck protruding, struggling desperately but still unable to move.

Bruton's attacks were mainly drawn to King Joe. The energy field around Zeta's head, under continuous pressure and in its struggle for self-preservation, was bound to generate intense streams of light particles and energy fluctuations.

For someone eager to conduct research, this is an invaluable window of opportunity.

Rose's finger tapped silently in an inconspicuous corner of the floating screen, transmitting the command without a sound.

An extremely tiny, precise metal cylinder, no thicker than a finger, was silently ejected from a highly concealed maintenance port on King G. Joe's back.

It blended into the swirling debris and distorted beams of energy, inconspicuous, like a speck of dust on a battlefield.

Using the blast wave as cover, it aimed with unparalleled precision at the side of Zeta's immobile, massive head—the target being an inconspicuous area on the back of his neck!

The surface of the miniature capture tube silently opens a suction pore the instant it touches the critical point of the Zeta body's surface barrier.

The internal nanostructure acts like the most precise piston, cleverly capturing and preserving a single high-purity light particle.

The entire process was swift, covert, and efficient, standing in stark contrast to the devastating bombings around it, and hardly aroused any alarm about the energy anomalies.

The miniature device, having completed its mission, detached instantly, using the trajectory of a metal fragment that had just been blasted away by the shockwave as cover, and quietly disappeared into the depths of a pile of ruins in the distance.

[Temporary node capture sequence...complete. High-purity light particle sample acquisition confirmed. Current coordinates marked.]

An encrypted message, which only Rose and Beanball could receive, flashed across the background feedback area of ​​the main screen very quickly.

"(…) Boss! Quickly pray that Zeta is oblivious!! If we get caught, we'll definitely be wanted, right?! Our points will definitely be reset to zero!"

The emoticons on the soybean ball were completely distorted into terrified screams, and the data stream almost turned into gibberish.

Chapter 117 Caw! I don't want to join the money-losing team!!

Rose unconsciously rubbed her fingertips together, as if she could still feel the faint, life-like warmth lingering in the sample tube. The research fervor deep in her eyes vanished like a shooting star, quickly replaced by her usual composed demeanor.

"Relax~" she said lightly, with a mischievous smirk, as she carefully placed the sample of light particles, brimming with astonishing power, deep into her system's storage. Consider it a well-deserved reward for the "small" effort she'd made for those guys earlier.

Over there, Zeta felt as if he had been lightly bitten by a mosquito on his skin, but as soon as the thought crossed his mind, he became puzzled: Are there really mosquitoes on Earth that can bite through an Ultraman's skin? Before he could think about it further, the energetic shouts of the human form, Haruki, immediately pulled him back to his senses.

"Zetasan! Break through here with the power of courage!"

"Yoshi!" Zeta responded with great enthusiasm, "Let's perform Ultra Fusion!"

Accompanied by the slightly metallic announcement from the Zeta Riser, crimson replaced red and purple, and Gamma Future's elegant figure was replaced by the explosively powerful Beta Impact form. A wrestler, seemingly constructed entirely of muscle, suddenly shot into the sky from the underground cave, charging towards the floating Bruton with ferocious momentum.

A thick arm swiftly extended, and with a "snap," brutally ripped off Bruton's most important antenna from its head, catching it completely off guard! Losing its antenna, Bruton instantly descended into extreme chaos and panic. Its hastily spawned tiny new antenna fired attacks that struck the Beta Impact's thick, hard body, like raindrops hitting rock, without even a ripple. It could only watch helplessly as its ferocious opponent, with powerful and imposing strides, approached step by step, before mercilessly beating it to a pulp.

It even used a lightning bolt to give Bruton a good electrocution treatment. If it could talk, its first words would probably be, "Please, just give me a quick death!" In the end, Bruton was thrown heavily into the sky. A dazzling M78 streamer of light torn through the sky, accompanied by a roar, and Bruton's body exploded, transforming into an aurora curtain that filled the sky and flowed with strange light.

As everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with satisfaction, Rose quietly manipulated the virtual screen. The small amount of aurora particles successfully collected by her little assistant, Huang Douqiu, who had just sneaked over, was being analyzed in real time.

"Whoa..." Huangdouqiu couldn't help but exclaim as it watched the wildly fluctuating test values ​​on the screen. "Although I knew from the data that that guy was very powerful, even these residual particles after the explosion are showing such a large fluctuation in spatial energy." Its bean-like eyes were full of disbelief.

Rose carefully archived the precious particle data and sighed, "There's nothing we can do. After all, that (world consciousness) doesn't want us to leave Bruton behind, otherwise Little Zeta would miss out on his new cheat equipment~" Of course, as "compensation" for not letting them study Bruton, the world consciousness turned a blind eye to Rose's behavior of secretly "extracting" Ultraman's light particles.

"Yoshi~" Rose patted the hem of her still-clean white lab coat, as if to brush off non-existent dust, then skillfully brought up the holographic teleportation map. "Time to get to work~"

A huge, tangible question mark practically popped out of Huang Douqiu's head: "Huh? Aren't we going to the armory?"

“Of course, we follow the predetermined route that guy appeared on,” Rose said, glancing at the bean-shaped ball out of the corner of her eye, her tone tinged with a hint of helpless reproach. “We’re going to install the barrier signal devices protecting the buildings. And…” She paused, looking at her bewildered little helper, thinking that even such trivial matters required her host's personal reminders, which was really a bit…

“You silly goose, you haven’t forgotten all the money we put in the armory, have you?” Rose frowned subconsciously. Thinking of the potentially disastrous consequences, her tone became serious. “If that money wasn’t used to upgrade and maintain the kids (the special forces aircraft), but instead went into the compensation money for the destroyed buildings…”

"Ah!" The bean-shaped creature's eyes widened instantly, and then its tiny body seemed to burst into a tangible flame. The thought that their hard-earned investment of huge sums of points might go down the drain fueled its fighting spirit more than anything else! It urged impatiently, "We absolutely can't waste it! Host, let's go!!"

Rose smiled as she watched her assistant's adorable, flustered expression. "That's more like it." She tapped the teleportation map precisely. "Let's go, time to get to work!"

As light and shadow shifted, the two appeared beneath an overpass on a busy stretch of road in the city center. Huge concrete piers supported the overpass, which was teeming with traffic, noise, and dust.

"The signal device is installed here?" Huang Douqiu scanned the heavy concrete structure above him warily, his eyes filled with worry. "What if... what if that monster really collapses this bridge? The compensation will be astronomical!"

“Hmm, one of the core nodes.” Rose confirmed casually, while taking out a flat, silver-gray device, no bigger than a fingertip, from her personal storage space—a “barrier signal device.” She approached a corner of the bridge pier, flicked her wrist, and the signal device snapped into the deepest shadowy crevice between the box and the cold concrete pier. A faint light flashed at the edge of the device, instantly disguising it as an old, rusted piece of metal.

"It's done." Rose clapped her hands. "The first-floor earthquake-resistant shield is activating."

"Whoosh—" Soybean Ball spun around as if relieved of a great burden. "Defend our investment! First milestone complete!"

"Mission accomplished! Now..." Rose brought up her terminal, and a text message from Armory's Yuuka popped up in the center of the screen: [Dr. Rose! Battle over! Could you please take a look at the preliminary feedback report on the King Joe battle data when you have time? Your professional advice is extremely helpful! Thank you very much! ()]

Rose glanced at it, then gestured towards the soybean ball: "Look, the flower, the data report."