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This is her bedroom. She had been waiting for her father in the living room last night. Although she had confirmed from Lingye that her father was indeed fine, she was still worried. Her father should have come back in the middle of the night. She fell asleep on the sofa in the living room at that time. She was dazed and didn't know how she got back to the room.
Sakura glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table. It was seven o'clock.
She didn't change into pajamas, but still wore yesterday's school uniform. She felt a little sticky after a night's sleep, so she wanted to take a shower. But if she took a shower now, she would be late for school.
Sakura opened the door and smelled the fragrance coming from the living room. It was the smell of breakfast.
"father!"
"Good morning, Sakura."
The kitchen and living room on the first floor are connected. When Sakura went downstairs to the living room, she saw her father frying eggs in the kitchen.
"I'm sorry, Ying, I made you worry yesterday. Go wash up first. Also, I've asked for leave from school for you."
"Did you ask for leave?"
"Yes, I took a day off. You didn't get enough rest last night, right? You can take a nice bath. Your friend was worried about you, too, as she came home so late last night. I wanted to let her stay here overnight."
"my friend?"
"Yes, wasn't she with you when I went home last night? You should thank her properly."
Sakura then remembered that it seemed to be true. Ling came to her house late last night and told her that she had confirmed that her father was safe.
She was very anxious at first, but with Ling's company, she gradually relaxed and fell asleep on the sofa.
Oh, how embarrassing! I was so rude. I entertained guests while I fell asleep.
Tenglong didn't get home until after 1 a.m., when the girl named Lingye was still with Sakura. Although he had offered to let her stay overnight, the Kinomoto family didn't have any extra guest rooms, and it was indeed a bit rude to actively let someone sleep in the same room with Sakura.
Moreover, the other party said that there was a private car waiting, so Tenglong did not force it.
The child of the famous Oshima family in Tokyo is more friendly than expected. Putting aside the other party's family background, Sakura is really lucky to have such an enthusiastic friend. Tenglong is also glad that he agreed to let Sakura participate in the TV series.
Sakura is now much more cheerful than before.
"dad."
"Hmm? What's wrong, Sakura?"
"You have to come and participate in the filming of the TV series this Saturday."
"Oh, don't worry, I'll remember it." Because he had promised Ying, Tenglong had already made arrangements for the school and turned down other work on Saturday.
It was also the first time for Tenglong to act in a TV series, and he played the legendary magician Kuro Reedo. He felt that he was completely different from me, and I didn't know how I could act.
"It's okay what my father said. He is still my father in the TV series."
That's true, but after reading the script, Tenglong suddenly realized that he would have to play an opposite role, but he didn't know who would be the actress playing his 'wife' Ichihara Yuko.
As they met by chance, he felt that he might not be able to act out that kind of lingering feeling.
But since Ying was expecting him, he could only bury his worries in his heart and do his best.
Unexpectedly, Tenglong thought of the woman who appeared in front of him on that night last month. Although there are aliens and monsters in this world, Tenglong has never heard of ghosts.
At the time, he was sure that it was his wife Nadeshiko, and even put away the memorial photo of Nadeshiko in the living room. But as time passed, he began to have some doubts.
Like a dream, like a shadow, like a bubble.
What he doubted was his memory, whether that night really happened or was just an illusion in his dream.
Nadeshiko's death was a fact that had long been established. Perhaps he had lost the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
But no matter what, he still had Sakura. Taking care of Sakura and raising her well was the only thing he could do to make up for Nadeshiko.
Chapter 9 V Destruction Plan
The streets of Tokyo are crowded with people.
On weekday mornings, when the crowds are at their busiest, the whole city is busy.
The woman was walking on the street, facing the flow of people. She felt a little uncomfortable, and her face was abnormally pale. She bumped into a pedestrian and was pushed to the corner of the street.
Dao Liu simply sat down on the corner of the street, gasping for breath. She felt that the air on Earth was turbid and smelly, and just breathing it made her feel nauseous.
She opened the handbag she was carrying and took out a large bulging bag from it. The transparent bag was filled with red gas.
It was the red mist that had spread outward from the pyramid before.
If someone looks closely at this scene, they will find that the bag being taken out is actually bigger than the handbag itself.
It looks like an ordinary hand-woven bag, which is flat and can't hold many items. But the actual space inside is much larger than it looks. It is the space technology from an alien planet.
Ignoring the people passing by, Dao Liu directly opened the plastic bag and let the gas inside the bag dissipate. She lowered her head and took a deep breath, revealing an extremely comfortable expression.
The air on this alien planet is clean and sweet.
Some people who were originally looking forward to asking about the woman's discomfort immediately gave up the idea after seeing her behavior, and quickly walked away with expressions of disgust.
Another fan-sucking guy. Today's young people can't stand the fast pace of Tokyo and indulge in depravity. They don't deserve any sympathy at all.
But no one called the police. In this city, people are sometimes overly polite when interacting with each other, but when it does not concern them, they don't say a word. Most of them choose to turn a blind eye, sometimes enthusiastic and sometimes indifferent.
At this time, two young men dressed in hippie clothes walked over.
"Hey, miss, that's a new thing, right? How about letting us play with it? I'll give you a hundred dollars for each one."
Dao Liu raised her head. The hallucinogenic feeling made her a little dazed, but she quickly came to her senses.
"You guys want to smoke too? Sure, but I don't want any money."
"No money? Then what do you want?"
"I want to... By the way, you guys know the TAC team, right?"
"Tucker, what?"
The two young men looked at each other. They knew all the latest gadgets popular among young people in Tokyo, but they didn't know anything else. Every day they either went ice skating or drank, or asked their families for money.
"Oh, yeah, now I remember, the TAC team you mentioned is the one that specializes in fighting Ultra Beasts, right?"
"Oh, yes, that's called the TAC team." The other young man was reminded and remembered, "Why are you asking this? I thought you were talking about a racing team or a band."
"I heard that the TAC team is currently manufacturing a missile called V9. Do you know where it is?"
Who knows? This kind of thing is confidential, and they don't care about it.
But after taking a look at the red bag in the woman's hand, the man realized it must be a new toy that he had never played with before, and he was unwilling to give up.
After racking their brains for a while, this was probably the most brain-intensive moment they had had in recent years.
Then, the effect of their efforts was significant, and even their wooden-headed brains did think of something.
"I remember that the news mentioned a V7 missile before, reporting that it was successfully transported under the attack of the Ultra Beasts. It was transported to the TAC team headquarters. The V9 is probably something similar, right?"
TAC team headquarters? Dao Liu silently remembered it in her mind. It turned out to be just as she thought. Such important weapons and equipment would always be placed in the headquarters. So now there is only one problem left.
"Where is the TAC team headquarters?"
This is no secret. Whether it is reporting to the police to provide clues about super beasts or resolving other demands of citizens, the TAC team headquarters is open to the public.
"I don't know the details, but I heard there's a place called 'Five Lakes' at the foot of Mount Fuji."
They have never been to the TAC team. Unless the TAC team gives them free "rations" to play around with, such a boring place has nothing to do with them.
"Well, we've answered all your questions, can you let us play now?"
"Of course, I keep my word."
Dao Liu smiled sarcastically as he handed over the red bag in his hand, and then left without looking back.
The two young men took the bag and quickly found a corner on the street. They opened the bag impatiently and took a deep breath. The next second, they both fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
But these have nothing to do with island currents.
The people on Earth are really stupid. She was even more certain of this. As a planet on the same arm of the Orion constellation, it was really shameful to have such a "neighbor".
You don’t even need to look for the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji. If you look west, Japan’s highest mountain is always there.
At the TAC team headquarters, Yamanaka, Yoshimura and others have returned.
The progress of the investigation on the pyramids has not been ideal, and it is even helpless. It is no exaggeration to say that nothing has been gained.
"There's no other way. The material is so hard that unless we move a large instrument to the site, a small cutter is useless."
It is impossible to take samples and it is impossible to get inside.
It's not that humans have absolutely no way to destroy the pyramids. No matter how hard the texture is, if energy weapons are used and extremely high-level energy is used to bombard them, anything will collapse.
No matter how mysterious it is, any matter in this universe must obey the laws of physics and is composed of the most basic particles.
As long as the energy level is raised, it will not be enough to cut off the molecules, atoms, protons and electrons, and even break through the strong nuclear force to separate the colloid in the quarks, and it will inevitably collapse from the basis of its composition.
Or they could use antimatter bombs. It just so happened that the TAC team was manufacturing the V9 missile. The raw materials and improved technology provided by the Yawa people made it more powerful than the V7 when the Firefly Ultra Beast was created.
The missile will be completed soon, and once used, any matter will be annihilated into pure light energy.
But that would be too much of a mobilization and might not be necessary.
"I understand, Yamanaka-kun, let's leave it at that for now," Captain Long concluded.
The job of the TAC team is to eliminate dangers, and investigating the ruins is the job of archaeologists. Since it has been confirmed that the ruins existed nearly ten thousand years ago, it is highly likely that the late former Speaker of Yabo can be ruled out as a suspect.
Unless a super beast pops out of the pyramid, the next work should have nothing to do with the TAC team.
Yoshimura was still somewhat concerned. He had done a lot of research in the fields of history and folklore, and had a deep interest in the pyramid.
"Why, Yoshimura, do you have any doubts?" asked Beidou who was also sitting nearby.
Beidou was on night shift yesterday. He went to the scene to investigate overnight, and then patrolled in the second half of the night. He should have rested today. However, he is the kind of person who can't sleep when he has something on his mind. He remembered that he and Lingye talked about the super ancient civilization last night, and he always felt a little concerned.
Human beings only exist in the present, as if walking in a foggy path. Whether looking forward or looking back, the future and the past are equally in the invisible fog. It is inevitable to feel uneasy about the unknown.
"I wouldn't say I have doubts, I'm just a little curious. This relic once belonged to a super ancient civilization. If they were able to cross the long river of time and communicate with today's humans, what would they think of us?"
Would the civilization of ten thousand years ago bless today's humans as the successors of life on Earth, or would it hate them as a species that had usurped the throne?
Yoshimura always felt a little curious, although at this point such an answer didn't make any sense.
At this time, the internal phone rang and Noriko reached out to answer it.
"Beidou, the guard said someone is looking for you. It's the kid from before."
"The previous child?"
The only person who had come to the TAC team to look for him before was probably—