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"By the way, how are Beidou and Nan?"
"Beidou has woken up, but Nan is still in a coma. The doctor said it's nothing serious, just exhaustion. He will be fine after some rest."
"Exhausted again? In my opinion, Beidou and Nan should participate in more physical exercise." Konno said.
I remember that the last time the demon star Koala attacked, Nan fainted from exhaustion when fighting with the Metronians and the Ultra Beasts. The TAC team members are warriors who are always ready to go to the battlefield, how can they be so weak?
"You're the only one who's talking nonsense. Beidou and Nan's plane melted in the air. They couldn't parachute out in that situation. They were saved thanks to Ace. It's a blessing that they're just exhausted."
After yesterday's battle, the TAC team found Beidou and Nan Xizi not far from the severely damaged Cosmos. Both of them fell into a coma and were rushed to the TAC Central Hospital. The Cosmos was damaged beyond repair and had to be rebuilt. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
"Also, the children of Yasuo and Zenta who were rescued by Ace and Gaia are all recovering. No sequelae were found."
It seemed that with the defeat of the super beast, everything was over. The child's missing belly button returned, and the plaques on his body faded away before he was sent to the hospital, as if nothing had happened.
"To be honest, even though I've been doing scientific research, I'm becoming more and more confused about how this world works."
Dr. Kiji's words put an end to the discussion. The investigation will continue, but both Long and Kiji know that there will probably be no more results. In short, no matter what the truth is, the incident has been resolved.
On the other side, Ling, who got up in the morning, also took out an Ultra Medal.
Yesterday's battle provided the last bit of energy for the medal to be unlocked. It was too late to get home last night, so Ling didn't look at it carefully. She took it out as soon as she woke up in the morning.
Inside the crystal chip was an Ultraman with red and silver colors, and some black lines outlined his appearance. There was an arm blade on each elbow of his hands, which made him look a little different.
[Nexus (Red Adult Form) Medal
Energy reserve: 72.6/230 (regenerated 0.002 per second)
skill:
Nexus Hurricane (energy consumption 30/time)
Giant Feather of Light (Energy Consumption 40/time)
End of Ray · Flow (Energy consumption 60/time)
Core shock ray (energy consumption 65/time)
Special skills:
Meta Field (Use your own energy to open a different space and transfer the battlefield to this space, which can increase your own light energy intensity and suppress the enemy's recovery. It consumes 50 energy/time, and continues to consume light energy during the field expansion process, with a basic consumption of 0.5/second. When the field is attacked, the corresponding energy is consumed according to the attack intensity. When the damage exceeds the upper limit, the Meta Field is lifted, and the overflow damage is borne by the person who opened the field.)
Ultra Phantom (Summons Nexus's red adult Ultraman phantom, with similar abilities to the original Ultraman, consumes 120 energy per time, lasts for 60 seconds, or is removed when light energy is exhausted. Gaia can summon it in human form)
Ling finally saw Nexus's special skill clearly.
At that time, she was thinking about how to reduce casualties in the battle, and the Light of Gaia gave her this option, the Meta Realm.
The subspace formed by Nexus' special energy can not only amplify oneself, but also suppress the enemy. It feels that the technical content of this technology far exceeds the Yabo people's alternate dimension.
However, this alien space itself is constructed with Nexus' body. If the space is damaged, it will be reflected back to the user. Ling is not sure under what circumstances the space itself will be damaged. Could it be that when the Meta Sphere is deployed, a large Ivan is thrown into the Sphere?
But it can be imagined that this is a skill that exists purely for protection, pulling the enemy into one's own space to prevent the aftermath of the war from hurting others. All damage in the space is fed back to one's own body, and all the costs are borne by oneself.
How should I put it? Although I have never seen this Ultra Warrior named Nexus and know nothing about him, just these skills alone have created an image in Lingye's mind -
The lonely guardian
Pulling the enemy and himself into the field alone also means that he will always fight alone. No one supports him, no one witnesses him, and even the people he is protecting are unaware of it. No cheers, no thanks, he protects the world with his back to the world in an unknown corner.
And the person being protected may never even have seen his back.
But Ling also likes this skill.
At this time, she found that at the bottom corner of the chip, below the skill interpretation, there was a line of special prompts.
[Since the Nexus Medal has been unlocked, the unlocking requirement for the Noah Medal (Gold) is reduced by 1%]
Noah? Ling also remembered that it should be one of the four golden medals that required astronomical figures to unlock. Sure enough, after she searched the drawer of the study and found the four golden medals, the unlocking requirement of one of them changed.
[Noah (Time and Space Beacon): Unlocking requirement: 98999]
It's a full 1000 less, which is a huge number. Nexus itself only unlocks 200 points, but compared to Noah's astronomical 10 unlock points, a thousand more or less doesn't seem to make any sense.
But why would unlocking Nexus affect Noah? Are the two related?
Chapter 135: Akabane River in Edo
Standing in front of the door of the Zhoushan house yesterday, Ling pushed it with her hand and found that the door was locked. It was locked by the TAC team.
In fact, this is certainly not Zhoushan House, it has been abandoned for decades.
"According to records, this villa was built by an expatriate who returned from England during the Taisho period. But it was later abandoned due to the war." Standing next to Reiya was Hokuto.
Compared to Nan Xizi, Beidou is stronger and has recovered a lot in just one day.
He also pushed the iron door, which made a clanking sound because it was locked with an iron chain. The iron door was locked by the TAC team, but he didn't have the key.
"You guys were too reckless yesterday." Lingye said.
Knowing that the water controlled by the super beast was problematic and would make people lose their strength, he still sucked it directly into his body. This way of fighting was too reckless.
"Yes, yes." Beidou accepted the criticism humbly, but probably wouldn't change.
If it was just Ace, he would be more cautious. But since Gaia was there, he had no worries in the battle. He believed that as long as he could restrain the Ultra Beast Gaia, he could defeat the opponent.
In the end, it was proved that Gaia did not disappoint this trust.
"Is there really anything worth investigating here? The TAC investigators have already turned this place upside down last night and today."
Although Beidou did not participate in the investigation, he believed in the professionalism of the investigators from the TAC team.
"Yeah." Ling didn't know if she could really find anything. She just had some doubts in her heart. "Speaking of which, although Kita-ku is not the central area of Tokyo, the land price should not be cheap, right?"
Beidou was a little surprised to hear Ling say this. He thought that the other party was a young lady who was ignorant of the world, but she actually knew something like the price of land.
"Our Oshima Group originally invested in finance and real estate." Ling also explained.
"Well, it's not cheap." The job in the TAC team is already considered high-paying, and the various front-line combat subsidies are enough to make many entrepreneurs envious. But even for Beidou, it takes many years of savings to buy a house here.
"But if the land price here is so expensive, why has this area of housing been abandoned for so many years and has not been redeveloped?"
"Ah, about that, there are certainly plans to redevelop this place. In fact, over the past few decades, many real estate developers and investors have taken a fancy to this place. It has changed hands several times. Some wanted to rebuild the villas, and there were other development plans, but without exception, they all failed."
Beidou paused at this point. The TAC team had investigated this matter during the day, and he had also read the information. He remembered that the Oshima Group should have been among the investors, but it was later sold.
Of course, Lingye probably didn't know. Such a small project worth only tens of millions, less than 100 million, could be decided by a middle-level executive of the consortium. Lingye's father might not even know.
Ling really didn't know, otherwise she would have asked Butler Jianye to check the information about the company's investment that year before coming.
"In the past, construction teams would encounter various accidents during construction, and there were many injuries and even rumors of 'disappearances'. Some people disappeared, and the police believed in the files that they had run away with the project funds, but there was no follow-up. The case was shelved for many years and the people were never found."
In the past, even the household registration system was not perfect, and the chances of finding missing people were slim, so similar cases would end up being left unsolved. Even today, decades later, it is still extremely difficult to find people across the country. I heard that there is a fingerprint database in the West that can provide a basis for solving cases and population statistics.
But it is just a concept, and it is impossible to realize it in at least the next ten or twenty years. Collecting fingerprints of hundreds of millions of people is simply a fantasy, and the archived papers can fill up several houses.
Therefore, it is indeed helpless that such cases are hastily thrown into the archives and collect dust.
"Hidden away~~" Ling also pondered over this word.
She stepped lightly on the bronze gate fence, and without any other movement, she flipped in as easily as if she had stepped over a step.
Beidou was a little jealous. This "special ability" was obviously given to her by Gaia in her human body. Ace didn't give him such treatment. His current body was still an ordinary human before the transformation, without any special features.
After looking around and seeing that no one was paying attention, Hokuto Seiji took advantage of the running start and stepped onto the wall to support himself. There were metal spikes on the top of the bronze door to prevent theft. Without Lingye's "special ability", he would not try it. It would be better to climb over the wall next to it. Although it was more than three meters high, it was nothing for the well-trained TAC team members.
It was just like a thief. Fortunately, no one saw it. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing for a TAC member to do such a thing. If he had known earlier, he would have asked the head of the investigation department and brought the key out.
Anyway, as a front-line member of the TAC combat department, I am sure the investigators will not have any objections to being interested in cases involving secrets. After all, they have stopped the search and closed the case.
After climbing over the wall and stepping onto the ground, the scenery of the villa garden was completely different from the last time Beidou saw it.
A ruined place.
The flowers, plants and trees were piled up in a mess, and some of the weeds were waist-high. It was a wasteland, not even close to being trimmed yesterday. It was obvious that this place had been abandoned for a long time.
"How could this be? When Yamanaka and I came here yesterday, we saw something that was clearly not the case."
"Perhaps this wasn't the place we saw yesterday?"
"Not here?" Beidou didn't quite understand what Lingye meant. It was clearly here yesterday, how could he be wrong? There was no other similar villa around here.
"Well, it could be a spatial mirror. Based on this space, the Yabo people created another space to overlap with it."
What Beidou saw yesterday, including Ling's night visit and the battle with the super beast, were all in the space reconstructed by the Yabo people. The biggest evidence is that there is no trace of Gaia's battle with the super beast yesterday in this garden.
"Is this kind of thing possible?" Beidou asked in surprise. Even Ace had never heard of such technology.
"I can do it." If it was a day ago, Ling would not be able to answer so confidently, but since unlocking the 'Nexus Medal', she has a deeper understanding of space.
If anything, Lingye can do this on her own now.
The Meta Realm itself is a technology that covers and constructs another space on the original space. Moreover, the Meta Realm is much more advanced than the Yabo people's technology, and the two are completely on a different level.
To use the civilization technology on Earth as an analogy, the Yabo people learned how to make fire by drilling wood together from nowhere, and the Meta realm mastered nuclear energy.
It is hard to imagine what kind of invincible god of war Nexus is with such a skill. Whether facing a monster or a super beast, he must be able to defeat it easily, right?
"Beidou, do you know Nexus?"
"Nike, what?"
"No, it's nothing."
It seems that Ace doesn't know him either. Ling also knows that Ultra Warriors are not only born in the Land of Light, Nexus must be fighting silently in a corner of the universe.
"But what exactly do the Yabo people want to do here? Is this the experiment they are talking about?"
"Well, Brother Beidou, you just said that in the past few decades, whenever someone was doing construction on this villa, there would inevitably be accidents, right?"
"Yes, that's what the TAC team described in the files they found, so people around here are saying this is a haunted house."
"Haunted house, that seems to be true."
"Why, did you find anything?"
Beidou was in awe of Gaia and believed that she could do things that Ace couldn't even imagine. After all, that was the will of the planet.
There are countless planets in the universe, and there are quite a few planets that can give birth to life and civilization. However, it is extremely rare for a planet to give birth to its own will.
It can be said to be unique.
This is a miracle comparable to the guardian of the universe. It is said that even the legendary Ultra King who lives alone on the King's Planet was alarmed and asked the captain about Gaia.
"This is Akabane, which belongs to Kita-ku, Tokyo, right?"
"Correct."