The story we started

【Zaimokuza lowered his head slightly, his white bangs drooping so that his eyes could not be seen. All that could be seen were his tightly pursed lips. His right hand with distinct fingers tightly grasped the handlebars, and the veins on the back of his hand were bulging because he was holding his palm too hard.】

【"...wooden seat."】

【Kousaka Kyosuke looked at Zaimokuza, who looked a little lonely, and his heart moved slightly. After hesitating for a moment, he called out his name. Upon hearing his name, Zaimokuza's back moved and he turned around to look over.】

[What made Kousaka Kyosuke feel somewhat relieved was that Zaimokuza, who turned around again, had the familiar cheerful smile on his face. He gave him the familiar thumbs-up and said with a smile.]

["Elder husband, Mr. Kosaka."]

40. Ancient stone remains unearthed

[Nagano Prefecture, Kuroyama Ruins. bookzun.com]

[Just as Zaimokuza was confused by the sudden sight and noise in his head, archaeological excavation work was in full swing at the ruins of Kuroyama in Nagano Prefecture. ]

Compared to the size of the archaeological team before the incident, it is much busier here now. Not only are there layers of blockades, but you can also see with your naked eyes that there are more than a dozen police cars on duty at the main roads near the ruins. Each officer is equipped with real guns and high-powered weapons, patrolling in shifts 24 hours a day. All the police officers are looking around with a serious and vigilant look. Judging from the way they hold their guns and their working attitude that has not decreased at all even after patrolling for hours, these police officers are obviously the elites of the Metropolitan Police Department.

[In the ruins they are guarding, professionals whose number far exceeds the number of the original Chengnan University investigation team are carefully surveying every part of the ruins, hoping to find more things from the ancient times. ]

[Of course, this is true. After all, it has been nearly two months since the tragic death of all members of the Jiulangyue investigation team, which also means that the unconfirmed life forms have been killing people outside for nearly two months. The discovery a few days ago confirmed that these powerful and ruthless monsters were resurrected from this ruins.]

[These archaeologists discovered a cemetery-like place in another hidden place not far from the ruins. After digging up the place, countless tombstones with mysterious words and stone coffins appeared. All the coffins found were empty. All the coffin lids were opened, and there was nothing inside.]

[The superiors who received the news immediately determined that this should be the place where the Gurongi were resurrected, and asked everyone to immediately count the number of opened coffins and whether there were any unopened sarcophagi.]

[After five days, the archaeologists finally counted all the coffins in the cemetery and obtained shocking data - there are at least more than 200 coffins in total! ]

[The number of unconfirmed life forms that have appeared and been marked with codes is only up to the twentieth. However, if these coffins are really the actual number of those monsters when they revived, then the unconfirmed life forms that have appeared now are actually less than one-tenth of the total number, and this may not be all the unconfirmed life forms, because no one dares to guarantee that after discovering the first cemetery like this, a second one will not be found.]

[This discovery was immediately reported to the higher-ups. When they learned that there were at least two or three digits of these horrific monsters that had caused countless bloodshed in Tokyo, they all shuddered. After all, just one of them had caused such a huge loss. What would it be like if they all went out in force?]

[No one dared to imagine that scene, but all the leaders at the relevant meeting unanimously passed the proposal to strengthen the security of the ruins in order to prevent the situation like the last investigation team from happening again.]

Toyosaki Academy.

"How many hundreds of these monsters are there???"

When Eriri Sawamura saw the content of the video on the classroom TV, she was almost stunned. She couldn't imagine how to deal with so many unconfirmed life forms. After all, there were only about twenty unconfirmed life forms in the video, even if we excluded Yoshiki Zaimokuza, the incarnation of Kuuga, but each of them was an absolute ruthless character, and the number of bloody cases they caused exceeded three digits, and each of them made Zaimokuza suffer a lot.

Especially No. 6 and No. 14. It can be said that if Zaimokuza had not been lucky enough to save his life twice, his life would basically have ended in the first battle with them.

Just the ones that have appeared now have forced the human side led by Zaimokuza Yoshiteru and Kousaka Kyosuke in the video to the point where they have to fight for their lives. It is hard to imagine who can resist when their entire army is mobilized to kill.

What is even more puzzling is how such a terrifying number of Gurongi were sealed by the ancient Lindo, that is, the ancient humans? After all, even in modern society with such advanced technology, the most destructive thermal weapons are difficult to hurt them unless they are large weapons such as rocket launchers. It is hard to imagine how the ancestors in ancient times accomplished this feat.

[In a tent camp not far from the excavation site, many stones were placed on a table in one of the tents. Several archaeological experts were standing around the table, looking at the stones and pointing at them.]

[“——This is the latest thing found near the ruins. It is not clear whether this thing is related to those unconfirmed life forms. I will continue to stay here to investigate.”]

[“Don’t worry, Yukinoshita-san, I know.”]

[A tall man in a suit and a white coat stood outside the tent holding a cell phone and whispered to Yukino Yukinoshita who was far away at Jonan University in Tokyo about the latest information found at the Kuroyama ruins. After he finished speaking, he hung up the call, put the phone in his pocket, and turned to walk towards the tent behind him.]

[The man has gray hair that is very similar in color to Zaimokuza, his body is as slender as a model, he is tall, and his facial features are delicate and soft, but you would never think he is a girl, but a young man with a neutral beauty. Judging from his appearance alone, he is completely qualified to be a model.]

[On the nameplate on his white coat’s chest is his name and position—]

[——Leader of the second team of the Jiulangyue Ruins Investigation Team: Totsuka Ayaka. ]

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, 2nd year F class.

"Ugh?"

Ayaka Totsuka, who looked like - or should I say, was exactly like - a beautiful girl who could be rated 90 points. She stared blankly at the man who appeared on the phone screen, and looked at the nameplate on his chest with a look of disbelief.

“This person is me???”

Looking at the handsome guy in the video who was almost as handsome as the future Zaimokuza Yoshiki, and who was enough to make countless girls scream when he walked on the street, Totsuka Ayaka, who now would only be stared at with admiration by countless boys when she walked on the street, could not believe that this was her future self.

But when she thought of the comparison between Zaimokuza's previous videos and his future self, Totsuka Ayaka was immediately relieved. She turned to look at the "herself" in the video with joy, who was almost the same as her ideal self, and was filled with joy.

"Has my future self finally become a man?"

【"Um……"】

【Totsuka walked to the table with the stones on it. The people around him automatically made way for him when they saw him coming in, and their words revealed their respect for him as the team leader.】

"The organization of these stones does not seem to exist individually, but rather as part of a whole object."

[He stroked his chin, which had a clear arc, and looked at the stones that had been put together on the table in front of him. After the various parts of these stones were connected, they looked very much like an insect, but Totsuka, who didn't know much about insects, couldn't tell what kind of insect it was.]

[“Report! We found another piece of debris!”]

[A member of the investigation team, also wearing a white coat and holding a green stone in both hands, walked in and handed the stone in his hands to Totsuka who was looking over.]

[“Hmm? This stone doesn’t seem to be very similar to the ones we have found now. It looks more like agate or something like that.”]

[Totsuka frowned as he took the green round stone and gently wiped away the dust remaining on the surface of the stone with his white-gloved hand.]

[When he wiped the soil away with his palm, a fluorescent green light appeared in his eyes.]

[——And it was at this moment that Zaimokuza, who was far away in Tokyo, suddenly felt a pain in his brain, and then a strange image emerged.]

【"Um?"】

[Totsuka, who was holding the stone in both hands and studying it, suddenly looked back with a strange expression, and saw only some members of the investigation team looking at him with curiosity.]

[“Is it an illusion?”]

[He spoke to himself, his clear grey eyes full of doubt.]

[For some reason, he felt as if someone was watching him.]

41. Mysterious Vision

[“You seem to have won easily this time. How do you feel about this purple form?”]

[Kousaka Kyousuke parked the car with his left hand and supported his stiff right shoulder as he walked towards Zaimokuza. The penetrating wound from the last attack on No. 700 has not healed yet and it still hurts from time to time. He can only hope that this will not cause him to suffer from any sequelae that will occur in old age. txt.com]

[“This is amazing! It feels much stronger than the previous forms. It’s very easy to use. This is the first time I feel that fighting can be so easy!”]

[“Fortunately, Mr. Kosaka’s support came in time, otherwise I would have been in danger.”]

【Thinking of the experience of almost having his neck cut open just now, Zaimokuza still felt a lingering fear, but he still smiled and gave his thumbs up, but he immediately remembered something and asked hurriedly.】

[“By the way, Mr. Kosaka, how is Mr. Manjo doing?”]

[He was referring to a wrestler in a fitness club that it had targeted before the battle with No. 20. That wrestler was also an assistant to the police. After the police informed him of the whole story, he resolutely chose to volunteer to assist in the ambush of the unconfirmed life form No. 20. Zaimokuza had talked to him before and had a good impression of him.]

【“…”】

[The smile on Kousaka Kyosuke's lips slowly faded, and he shook his head silently.]

[“It was too late. His neck bones were shattered and he almost died on the spot. He was already dead when the doctor went upstairs.”]

【“…”】

[After hearing this news, the smile on Zaimokuza's face disappeared. He lowered his eyes to look at the ground, and the face of the bald man named Manjo flashed in his mind. He once patted Zaimokuza's shoulder and laughed heartily, saying that he would take him to his house for dinner after this matter was over, and introduce his wife and daughter to Zaimokuza.]

[“…If I had been faster, Mr. Wanzhang might not have died.”]

[Zaimokuza said in a low voice, his voice was very dull.]

[“This is not your fault. The problem lies in our misjudgment. When we saw the appearance of No. 20, we subconsciously thought it was a man, but we never expected that its human form would be a woman, and that its dress would be so normal…”]

[Thinking of the image of the woman before No. 20 turned into a monster, wearing a fitness short-sleeved shirt and fitness shorts that showed off her beautiful figure, with normal light makeup on her delicate face, and bare fair skin without any tattoos, Kousaka Kyousuke felt incredible that a woman who looked like a female gym coach could actually turn into a Gurongi who looked very similar to a cockroach.]

[She was too normal. She looked more normal than the police officers in the gym who were wearing sports shorts and "jogging" on the treadmills at a speed of 4 kilometers. She looked like a female athlete who was going to the gym to apply for a gym membership. And her fluent Japanese made it impossible to associate her with those unconfirmed life forms who killed countless people, especially No. 20, who looked like a large cockroach.]

[After all, as we all know, women and cockroaches are eternal enemies. The possibility of these two elements merging together is like a bear and an eagle sleeping in the same bed with guns in their arms, and both of them are still alive when they wake up the next day.]

[So when No. 20 walked in front of Mr. Wanzhang and turned into a monster, all the police officers present were unable to react. They only stared at the men and ignored the women. By the time they reacted, the assistant had been wrapped around the neck by No. 20's tentacles and thrown back in a German throw. The sound of the neck fracture made the stunned expressions of many police officers look extremely funny.]

[“These guys are getting more and more familiar with us now. Not only can they speak our language, they can even take advantage of our cognitive loopholes. It is definitely not accidental that No. 20 dressed up like that, but it was intentional, because it guessed that we were going to ambush it, and it took advantage of our trick.”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke stomped out a burning flame under his feet, took out a pair of gloves from his arms and put them on, then leaned over with a transparent plastic bag and put a small piece of the remaining arm blade fragment on the ground into it.]

[“——Miss Ebina is right. They are evolving, not biologically, but in terms of anthropomorphism. Now, whether it is behavior, appearance, clothing, language, or even ideological aesthetics, they are almost the same as us humans.”]

[Looking at the weapon fragments in the plastic bag in his hand, Kousaka Kyosuke's eyes were extremely solemn. ]

[“What’s even more terrifying is that their knowledge and understanding of us has reached such a deep level, but we still know nothing about them. We don’t know their details, the purpose of their killings, and everything about these Gurongis is shrouded in fog... I have to say, this feeling is really irritating and unsettling.”]

[Imagine that when you say hello to someone on the street, that person may look normal, talkative, able to respond to your questions, and even have a good chat with you, but in essence he is an out-and-out monster. The human skin that looks like you is just a disguise. Underneath it is a person who is extremely bloodthirsty and always wants to take your life. His thoughts and consciousness are completely different from those of humans. How would you feel when you know all this? ]

[I'm afraid the word "horror" is not enough to describe it. The so-called uncanny valley effect is just like this. When something is quite similar to humans in appearance and action, humans will have positive emotions towards it. But once it exceeds a certain "degree" and reaches a certain limit, people's feelings will suddenly become extremely disgusted. Even if the thing is only slightly different from humans, it will appear very conspicuous and glaring, making the thing look very stiff and terrifying, making people feel like they are facing some kind of alien creature.]

[Kousaka Kyosuke now has this kind of "horrifying" feeling, but before this, the only emotion he had for these unidentified life forms that killed the citizens was hatred and disgust, nothing else.]

[“Indeed, and during the days of fighting these Gurongis, except for the exceptions of No. 6 and No. 14, I can feel that all the remaining Gurongis are gradually getting stronger. At the beginning, they could only rely on their physical bodies to fight, but since No. 14, all of them can use this special weapon.”]

【Zaimokuza covered his left chest. When he was fighting with No. 20 at the beginning, he was not paying attention and was hit hard by its wrist blade. The chest muscles of the almighty form were almost cut open. Although the wound disappeared after he turned into the blue dragon form, it was only on the surface. He still felt a dull pain in his chest.】

[“I’m going to take this thing left by No. 20 back to the research institute and have it analyzed by Ms. Ebina to see if we can find out something from the material composition of this weapon. By the way—”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke suddenly remembered what Ebina Hime had told him on the phone before, and turned to Zaimokuza and said.]

[“Zaimokuza, you should come as well. Ebina asked me to find time to take you for a thorough physical examination recently. It seems that he wants to use this opportunity to collect physical data after your transformation.”]

[“Uh——Are we going to Hime-Hina’s place?”]

[Zaimokuza's expression froze. Although he still kept smiling, his words and eyes were full of resistance.]

["What's wrong? Are you still afraid to meet Miss Ebina?"]

[Kousaka Kyosuke turned around and glanced at the cowering Zaimokuza, with a faint smile on his face and a look of anticipation.]

[“Hey, Mr. Kosaka! Please stop laughing so hard that it makes my scalp tingle, okay?”]

【Zaimokuza complained, and the corner of his eye twitched.】

[“It’s not that I’m afraid, it’s just…”]

[Zaimokuza couldn't help but think of his last visit to the Metropolitan Police Department's Scientific Research Institute. He had nightmares every time he thought about it!]

[At that time, just when my right foot had just stepped into the open door and I realized something was wrong, I was caught by Hime Ebina who appeared from nowhere and locked the entrance multi-layer alloy door with a remote control. I was dragged into the laboratory and not only was I forced to take off my clothes on the spot, but also scanned every corner of my body with a strange instrument, even ■■■ and ■■ were not spared.]

[She even took off her glasses and exclaimed in amazement when the instrument scanned the area three inches below her belly button, while Zaimokuza could only lie on the experimental table with a stiff expression, and all he could see were a bunch of researchers of varying numbers, male and female, holding a booklet and recording something as she spoke. He could feel their white-gloved hands caressing her body, and everyone was looking at her naked, pure body with an academic look, which made Zaimokuza, with a flushed face, feel like he was dying.]

[Whenever I think of the day when I was stripped down to my original state and devoted to science, and was publicly executed in front of everyone, every time I think of it, Zaimokuza wails in shame and wants to bang his head against the wall to save his innocence.]

[From that day on, the Metropolitan Police Department's Scientific Research Institute became a permanent forbidden place in his heart. ]

[“Ahem! Don’t worry, this time Ms. Ebina is only asking you to go for a routine checkup. It won’t be the same as last time.”]

【Thinking of the last time he watched the entire "large-scale human figure sketching event" through the glass of the laboratory as a VIP audience, Kousaka Kyosuke almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and hurriedly coughed a few times to cover it up, but his tone was still full of laughter. 】

[“I hope so…”]

[Wandering down the memory lane, Zaimokuza's mouth twitched, and he said with a somewhat numb look in his eyes, "Every time I recall that day, it is a torture to my spirit."]

[He inserted the handlebar in his hand back into the right handlebar of the Triangle Tracker 2000, and just as he was about to pick up the helmet and put it on, he paused.]

【%￥*&#￥%%￥@#@#——】

[Suddenly, a strange noise sounded in my brain, and then a frame of picture flashed in my mind, and the edge of the picture was filled with mosaic-like noise and disorder on the TV. ]

[In this blurry image, there seemed to be a pair of large red eyes that looked like gemstones, as if they were looking at me through this frame of the picture. In addition to the noise in my brain, there was also a sound similar to language.]

【￥%%＃￥@good＃￥%miss%＃%＃%＃%￥miss＃@￥%——】

【Finally, a black and white image appeared in his mind. In it, a green stone was being stroked by a pair of hands wearing white gloves. Zaimokuza felt as if he had turned into that stone. A blurry face appeared in front of him. He could only vaguely tell that it was a man.】

[“Hmm——”]

【Click.】

[The helmet fell to the ground and rolled a few times on the asphalt road. Zaimokuza knelt beside the wheel with his hands covering his head, his face full of pain.]

[“Zaimokuza!? What’s wrong?”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke heard the voice and turned around to see Zaimokuza kneeling beside the motorcycle. He frowned and ran to him quickly, patted him on the shoulder and asked in a deep voice.]

[“I…I…?”]

【Feeling the pain in his mind gradually subside, and that scene gradually disappearing from his memory, Zaimokuza loosened his hands that were holding his head, his eyes full of doubt.】

[Just now...what was that? ]

Valentine's Day Extra: A World Without Gurongi

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