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"Well," Machiko thought about it, her eyes a little dazed, and after a moment she came back to her senses, "I want a doll."
"A doll? A Barbie doll?"
Barbie dolls appeared in the American market more than ten years ago, and quickly became popular around the world, becoming the favorite of all little girls.
But that's not what Machiko wants.
"I want an Ultraman doll, and I want a Gaia doll."
"Gaia doll? I see. I'll bring it to you next time I come."
This is not a difficult request, there are many Ultraman dolls in the shops on the street. From Zoffy to Gaia, dolls of Ultra Brothers are everywhere.
Anyway, Ultra Brothers will not claim the copyright. There are exquisite ones that cost tens of thousands of yen, like handicrafts, and there are cheap ones that cost a few hundred yen, just ordinary plastic blocks.
After leaving the hospital, Kotaro went straight to the toy store.
On the shelf, he did not choose the most expensive one. Instead, he took a Gaia that cost more than a thousand yuan. It was not cheap. It was not a doll made of high-end materials, but soft plastic. But at least the workmanship was relatively delicate.
The kind that costs several hundred dollars, and the face of Gaia made of it looks like an evil god, it’s hard to describe, he can’t give it away.
Check out and leave.
Since there have been no monster attacks recently, ZAT has not entered emergency standby mode, and Kotaro, who is not on duty, has a lot of time. He is not in a hurry to go back.
He planned to send the toy to the hospital first. It would be great if Machiko could be happier and recover soon.
Tokyo is still bustling at night. For many people, night is the beginning of a day.
Throwing Gaia's doll onto the passenger seat, Kotaro opened the door and got in.
There were a lot of cars on the road, so when a car followed him, Kotaro didn't pay much attention at first. This was the main road, and it was common to see people driving the same road.
It wasn't until he encountered several red lights in a row that he finally realized that the car parked behind him was always the same one.
I looked back through the rearview mirror, but I couldn't see the driver clearly because the lights in the other car were not on.
Kotaro glanced at it and then looked away, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong. He quickly looked again.
This time, Kotaro looked carefully at the rearview mirror and finally realized what was wrong. Although he couldn't see the driver clearly, his outline was really strange and didn't look like a human.
At a certain moment, the high beam of the oncoming driver illuminated the car for a moment, and Kotaro finally saw clearly!
It really is an alien, the one in the photo that Lingye sent him before!
The traffic light was still red, and the car behind suddenly started up and hit the rear of Kotaro's car, but it still didn't stop. It pushed Kotaro's car across the stop line of the red light and went forward!
A heavy truck whistled shrilly, and a tanker truck was coming. Kotaro was stopped in front of the tanker truck by the car that was pushed out of the stop line, and was about to hit it in the next moment.
At that moment, Kotaro did not sit there and wait for death. He stepped on the accelerator and the car started with a roar. In less than half a second, it moved forward half a meter.
The tanker truck that was going to hit the driver's seat hit the rear of the car instead. The patrol car was spun around several times, and the rear of the car was completely smashed. Metal debris was everywhere, and the front of the car turned 720 degrees before hitting the flower bed.
Ten minutes later, the ZAT team arrived, following closely behind the traffic police.
"What's wrong, Kotaro!"
When Araki and Kitajima approached, Kotaro was being carried into an ambulance and was about to be sent to the ZAT Central Hospital. That was Kotaro's original destination, but he originally went there to visit a patient, but now he changed his identity.
"I just fainted for a moment, it shouldn't be a big deal. Deputy Captain, an alien hit my car on purpose."
"Is that the one you checked earlier?"
"Yes, that's it!"
"I see, they are here to invade the Earth. Their target is our ZAT team!" Kitajima said confidently, "At this point, aliens and monsters all know the reputation of our ZAT team. They know that with us here, they can't realize their plan to invade the Earth, so they want to defeat us one by one!"
Araki thought about it, and although he was a little narcissistic, he did not rule out this possibility.
"Kotaro, what's that in your hand?"
"It's a gift. It's from Machiko who was sent to the hospital earlier. This is the gift I gave her!"
"That's very thoughtful, but Machiko would never have thought that you sent it to her in this way."
Kotaro's injury was not serious, except that the impact caused his knee to hit the car door, which may have fractured the bone. If he had been hit directly on the driver's seat, it would have been much more serious.
At that moment, he did think about whether to transform into Taro, but it turned out that he could do it as a human.
After being sent to the hospital, Kotaro did not lie down properly, but limped to Machiko's ward.
"Kotaro-nii, what happened to your foot?"
Machiko was awake, and her condition was much better than it had been not long ago.
"Yeah, I fell a little, nothing wrong. Here, this is a gift for you!"
"Ah, it really is Gaia's doll! Thank you, Kotaro-nii. I'm so happy."
Machiko took the doll and hugged it tightly to her chest.
"Brother Kotaro, are you in the hospital too?"
"Yes, it's in the ward opposite you."
"Is that so? What a coincidence." Machiko lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.
Kotaro didn't want to disturb Machiko's recovery any longer, not to mention that he was also an injured patient, so he quickly left the room and returned to his own ward.
His injuries were not serious, but the vice-captain insisted that he come to the hospital. Kotaro felt that he could be discharged tomorrow after a night's rest.
It was getting dark and it was already late at night.
It was late at night, and after the nurse finished her ward rounds at 11 o'clock, there was no more movement in the corridor. The next ward round was at 1 o'clock, which was still an hour away.
At twelve o'clock, when the long, medium and short needles overlapped, the lights in the corridor flashed a few times and suddenly dimmed. The dim environment became even more deserted.
snap
It was like the sound of plastic slippers stepping on floor tiles, and then another snap.
The footsteps were light, but they still carried through the silent corridor.
Step by step, the voice finally stopped at the door of a ward.
The door knob clicked.
The door opened.
On the door of the ward, the patient's name "Tokotaro" was written.
The footsteps then entered the room.
Click, click, so gently, but not like the way a normal person walks.
Like a puppet without a soul.
Chapter 450: The Space Assassin Catan
In a daze, Kotaro felt like there was someone beside his bed.
But he couldn't open his eyes, his body was stiff and heavy, as if he was being oppressed, and he felt like he was having a nightmare from which he couldn't wake up.
He was clearly aware that someone was approaching in reality. It was as if the footsteps came from the horizon, echoing at the border between reality and dream.
Perhaps sensing the danger, Taro's badge flashed.
But it was no use, the badge was still on the shoulder of the shirt, and the shirt was hanging on the wall on the other side of the room. Kotaro was still asleep, and even if he was awake he couldn't touch the badge on the other side of the room.
A figure stood beside Kotaro's bed, short and small, looking even more eerie in the dark room.
There was no light, only a faint green light from the electronic device at the bedside that monitored heart rate and blood pressure. The pale green light reflected the face of the little figure, who was none other than Machiko.
She raised her right hand stiffly, holding a sharp fruit knife.
The hand paused in mid-air for a moment, and Machiko's body trembled a little. From the moment she entered the door until now, she didn't move like a living person, and every move was like a puppet being pulled by strings.
In her left hand, she still held Gaia's doll, which was the doll Kotaro gave her.
After a moment's stalemate, she swung down suddenly with her right hand holding the knife.
Feathers flew, and at the last moment Kotaro finally struggled to wake up. He used his pillow as a shield to block the knife.
"Machiko!"
No, that's not Machiko, Kotaro realized.
He wanted to grab the gun, but like Taro's badge, the gun was also in the holster of his uniform and not at his side.
He is now truly unarmed.
Fortunately, the other party is just a ten-year-old girl. Since she is sober, she should not be able to threaten her even if she has a knife in her hand.
As Kotaro was thinking this, he noticed that Machiko's eyes were scarlet, and that red color suddenly shot out.
It was pitch black in front of him, not the darkness of a room without lights, but the darkness of having lost vision. Kotaro realized belatedly that he could no longer see!
People will feel confused and helpless when they lose their vision for a moment, not to mention that there is an enemy in front of them who is holding a knife and wants to kill them at any time.
"Who are you, this guy?"
Kotaro shouted, but the other party did not say anything. A professional killer would certainly not answer other people's questions casually.
'Machiko' said nothing and walked forward again with the knife in hand, but perhaps it was not suitable for her body, she stumbled with her left and right feet and fell to the ground, with the knife falling to the ground.
Kotaro couldn't see it, but he clearly heard the sound of metal hitting the ground.
The knife fell under the bed, and Machiko made a sound of annoyance, but that sound really didn't sound like a girl's voice.
Kotaro wanted to take the opportunity to resist, but he was blind and his foot was injured so he couldn't move freely, and he couldn't even get out of bed.
Machiko might be able to pick up the knife by bending down under the bed, but she was already impatient. There were bottles of medicine waiting to be hung on the water rack, and she took one down and smashed it at the head of the bed, splashing the medicine everywhere. The half-broken glass bottle became a sharp glass blade.
Holding the glass blade, 'she' stabbed at Kotaro again. This time, Kotaro, who was blind, was unable to dodge.
But Machiko's hand was eventually stopped.
A hand grabbed 'Machiko's' arm with such force that she had to stop.
Kotaro listened attentively and he sensed something.
"Gaia?"
He asked tentatively, and then heard a familiar voice.
"You're too careless, Kotaro."
It was indeed Gaia, the Giant of Light who had become human-sized. Even about the same height and size as ten-year-old Machiko.