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Kotaro on Earth doesn't know that he will have a tough battle in three months. At this time, he is still fighting monsters in the virtual environment with his teammates from ZAT.
Antola, Bermuda, Red King, and Baltan, without the help of Ultraman, rely on human beings' own power to destroy them.
This is not an easy task, it is very challenging, but at the same time it is also very rewarding. Humans are really gradually gaining the power to protect themselves.
Of course, daily patrol work cannot be stopped.
Today it was Kotaro's turn to patrol Tokyo during the day. After a period of calm, Tokyo had returned to its former order. The Imperial aliens a week ago did not cause much damage to the island nation because the battlefield was on the sparsely populated beach of the Seto Inland Sea in Okayama.
Another peaceful and tranquil autumn afternoon.
During a day's patrol, no monsters were encountered, but Kotaro almost hit a little girl with his car.
A puppy ran into the middle of the road. In order to save the puppy, the girl rushed directly in front of Kotaro's car without even looking at the cars around.
Fortunately, Kotaro's car was not driving very fast, and ZAT's car had better braking performance, so they did not hit anyone, but just scared them.
"You are too dangerous!"
"But then everyone will stop their car. If it was a puppy in the middle of the road, no one would stop their car and the puppy would be hit to death."
Kotaro couldn't understand this logic. Using his own body to ask someone to stop the car? What if it didn't stop?
The girl's name is Machiko, and she is only 10 years old. Seeing her holding the puppy lovingly, Kotaro couldn't say the words he wanted to scold her.
Machiko said that her brother died while saving someone a year ago, and her brother has always been a kind person, so she also wants to be a kind person.
"But even if you want to do good things, you have to ensure your own safety! Otherwise, your brother in heaven will not be at peace."
"Well, thank you. Brother Kotaro also told me something like this when he was still alive. He said to be careful and not do anything dangerous. But he himself didn't follow it."
Kotaro's brother? Kotaro thought it was him, then he realized that the girl's brother had the same name as him, also Kotaro.
For Kotaro, this was just a minor incident. Machiko was not injured and she said she could go home by herself.
Back at the ZAT team, he quickly put the incident behind him.
It’s time to go home from school in the evening. Winter is approaching and it gets dark early.
The car was driving on a busy road in Tokyo. Suddenly, the butler Jian Ye made a sharp turn and Ling, who was sitting in the back seat, was pushed against the car door due to the centrifugal force.
It's not that I was startled, just a little surprised. Jianye usually drives very carefully, and there is no particular sense of frustration even when starting and stopping.
"Sorry, Miss, a car suddenly hit us in front."
It is normal to be cut in line occasionally when driving, but that car suddenly and unreasonably cut in.
If Jianye hadn't reacted quickly, he would have crashed into him if he had hesitated for a moment.
It was an off-white Nissan. After forcing its way into the parking space, it still did not behave itself and continued to overtake the vehicles in front of it. Rather than showing off its driving skills, it was more like a ruthless road bully.
"A gang of speed racers? This is really dangerous." Jianye sighed and continued to drive carefully.
There are quite a lot of guys like this in Tokyo recently, a group of young people born in the 1950s who are ignorant of the immensity of the world.
"See Grandpa Ye, can you surpass him?"
I didn't expect Ling to say that. Jianye said "Huh?" in surprise. He looked at the young lady in the rearview mirror, trying to confirm whether he had heard it wrong or whether there was some grammar that he didn't understand.
But that's what Ling meant.
"But Miss, this is too dangerous."
"Well, but the person driving the car doesn't seem to be human. It doesn't seem right to let an alien drive dangerously."
Although there was no major damage in Tokyo, it is not okay to violate traffic rules and speed on the road.
"Is it an alien?" Jianye would certainly not doubt the eldest lady's words.
So, this is the eldest lady's job?
"Can I catch up?"
"Of course." This time, Jianye changed his tone and nodded without hesitation, "No problem. When I was racing, the fathers of those little racing kids in Tokyo were not even born yet."
With a step on the accelerator, the car accelerates almost like a catapult. Although this Mercedes-Benz is not a luxury car, it is a coupe after all, and it can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in less than three seconds.
The two cars soon approached each other by weaving flexibly between the traffic. Ling also took out her mobile phone, and at the moment when the two cars were level, she pressed the shutter button at the driver's seat of the car next to her.
Click.
When he found someone trying to overtake him, the alien suddenly turned the steering wheel, not afraid of crashing his car at all.
No matter how good Jianye's driving skills are, they are of no use in this way of driving. He has never seen anyone driving a car like a bumper car.
In order to avoid a collision, Jianye had to brake and slow down, and then watched the car drive away in a swagger.
Jianye was about to step on the accelerator, but Ling stopped him.
"Forget it, don't chase after."
Ling had just finished speaking when she heard a loud bang in front of her and flames shot up into the sky. The car driven by the alien crashed into a road post at such a high speed that the fuel tank caught fire and it spontaneously combusted.
"Oh!" Jianye made an inexplicable sound in awe. No wonder the eldest lady said there was no need to chase her.
It's amazing! He didn't even realize how he did it. A curse from the gods?
But Ling was also confused. It had nothing to do with her. Whether Jianye believed it or not, the car had an accident on its own. She did nothing.
When she got off the car, many cars stopped nearby and gathered to watch the accident. This was human instinct. But Ling also found that there was no trace of aliens in the car that caught fire.
Ran?
When Kotaro received Reiya's call, he was resting after finishing his patrol.
At the same time, a photo was sent to him. It was the only clear photo of the alien taken after catching up with the car.
Kotaro sent the photos to the Universal Association. As long as the "celestial beings" visited the Earth through formal channels, there would be detailed registration and inspection information at the Universal Association.
Once any violation of Earth's laws occurs, minor violations will be treated as warnings, while serious violations or repeated violations will result in direct expulsion from Earth and cancellation of temporary residence status.
Violating traffic rules and running recklessly on the road like this, endangering public safety, can be considered an act between light and serious, and it is no problem to directly deport you.
But the feedback from the Yuxie Federation was surprising.
"No entry registration? Is this alien an illegal immigrant?"
This is much more serious than violating traffic rules by speeding. It is so serious that it can even be considered an invasion.
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"So, in the end, the identity of that alien was not found out?"
Ling was just saying it casually, but Kotaro felt a little guilty. He felt that he had not tried his best. He did not know what the enemy was that might threaten the earth.
But in fact, Ling had no intention of blaming Kotaro at all.
The universe is so vast, and there are countless civilizations in existence. It is natural that we cannot know all of them.
Kotaro has already asked the Galactic Federation, and they don't have any records of this alien.
"But I have sent Ultra's autographs to my brothers, they may know something."
Is this how Otto's signature is used?
Ling was not sure. When she was with Beidou, Ultra Signature was supposed to be used as a last resort. But Taro seemed to just use it as a message tool.
I invited my brothers to come to Earth for a barbecue before, and this time I just asked them some random questions, just like sending a message on a cell phone.
The brothers have not responded yet.
But there was actually another situation at the scene of the car accident. There were injuries in that car accident. Not far from the crash site, the ZAT team found an unconscious little girl. She might have been scratched and was seriously injured.
Kotaro knew that girl. Yes, it was Machiko who ran into the fast lane to save the puppy.
Her injuries were quite serious. Her hands and feet were fine, but her internal organs might have been damaged. After Kotaro sent her to the Central Hospital, she had been in a coma and had a high fever.
Perhaps Gaia's 'Blue Mother' could help her. But Kotaro quickly dismissed the idea, as he couldn't rely on Ultraman's power for everything.
Human injuries should be treated with human’s own medical skills.
Although it may sound a bit inhumane to say this, birth, aging, sickness and death are the normal state of life.
Because you have seen it, you intervene with superhuman strength. What about those who have not seen it and are suffering? This is a kind of arrogance.
Even his mother, Mother of Ultra herself, did not always use Blue Mother when she needed to treat Ultra Warriors in the Kingdom of Light. More often, she used the Silver Crusaders' own healing methods to relieve and heal the warriors' pain.
"Kotaro-nii."
When Kotaro went to visit Machiko, the girl who had fainted miraculously woke up.
She looked a little confused, as if she was half awake, and Kotaro was not sure whether the girl was calling him or her deceased brother Kotaro.
Before, after meeting the girl, Kotaro was a little worried about her, so he used ZAT's authority to investigate the relevant records.
Machiko did have an older brother named Kotaro, a young sailor.
He went fishing a year ago and died in an attack by a monster.
Kotaro remembered that monster, the crab monster from Hachijojima, which had attacked several fishing boats. It was one of the first monsters he encountered when he first arrived on Earth.
Machiko's brother was not originally unable to survive. After the attack, he had a chance to board the rescue boat before the ship sank.
But he let the elderly fishermen get on the boat first.
While trying to rescue an old man whose legs were crushed by the overturned cargo, the boat sank and he and the rest of the people were sucked into the whirlpool.
Being caught in a whirlpool, no matter how good a swimmer you are, is useless. His body was not found on the sea surface until two days later.
So Machiko was telling the truth, her brother did sacrifice himself to save others.
"Kotaro-nii."
Machiko called out again, and Kotaro then confirmed that she was really calling out to him.
"I'm here, Machiko, how are you feeling?"
"I feel dizzy and weak."
With such an injury, of course I would have no strength.
"Then don't talk for now. You need to rest well and listen to the doctor. You will be well soon with IV drips and medicine. You can tell me if there is anything you need."
"Is anything okay?"
"Of course, is there anything you want?" Although Kotaro did not deny that he had just said it casually, if Machiko really wanted something, he would certainly not refuse.
The hospital ward was very quiet, with only the ticking sound of the pendulum on the wall.