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Just two days ago, a strange woman appeared in Tokyo, wearing a wedding dress, about 20 years old. She would suddenly appear in front of a moving car, stop it, and then overturn it.
The weight of a car is measured in tons, so someone who can overturn a car is obviously not an ordinary human being.
There were also people who were forced to stop without time and hit her directly, but the result was that the car was damaged and the woman was unharmed.
"The related attacks have resulted in four deaths and more than 30 people were injured to varying degrees of severity."
This does not seem like a crime committed by an ordinary human being and is indeed within the jurisdiction of ZAT.
Is he an alien? But if he is, why is he staring at the car? Araki couldn't figure it out.
He had read the information and found that the twenty or so vehicles attacked had nothing in common. If the vehicles attacked were military vehicles, then it was understandable. According to TAC records, Yabo had also sent super beasts to attack vehicles transporting V7 in the past.
But this time, the vehicles attacked included private cars, buses, trucks, and tankers, and there was no apparent purpose at all. The attackers attacked the vehicles themselves, and she would not chase after the drivers after they escaped from the cab.
Araki thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out the connection between them.
"Deputy Captain, according to the data just sent by the Metropolitan Police Department, the last person attacked was a newspaper reporter, and he took a picture of the attacker!"
"Oh, is that true? Bring it here so I can take a look."
The photo was printed out, and it was indeed a woman in a wedding dress, holding a rose in her hand.
“She looks pretty,” Nanyuan squeezed over and commented while looking at the photo.
If the government has a personnel database in 40 or 50 years, then such photos can be used to compare and confirm the identity of the other party. Unfortunately, there is no such thing now.
So the photo is only a clue, and it is still unclear who it is. It is more convenient to find someone with photos than the ZAT team or the Metropolitan Police Department, as they can contact the police stations in each area.
For now, all the ZAT team can do is increase patrols.
Then that same night, even the ZAT team’s patrol car was overturned.
With only two days left in the holiday, Sasaki, the editor-in-chief of the comics company under Oshima Entertainment, visited Oshima's house to inform Lingye of the good news.
No one was optimistic about the comic magazine "Earth" which was founded last winter. After all, the comic industry has long been divided into three parts by Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kodansha. Any random intervention without any foundation would be a dead end.
Sasaki also made the job switch here under great pressure.
Now, a year has passed, and "Earth" has not closed down, but has gradually improved.
In fact, Sasaki can understand that. Earth itself is indeed an inconspicuous new publication, but behind it stands the Oshima Group, a giant in Tokyo. This is definitely the reason why Shueisha and Shogakukan tacitly acknowledge its existence and do not suppress it.
However, what really made Earth famous was not capital itself, but an interesting story. A comic book just needs to be interesting! What made it famous was the comic book called Arale!
"Teacher Toriyama's Arale was published in a single volume two months ago, and so far, sales have exceeded 500,000 copies!"
Although it still cannot match the previous record of Doraemon, it has surpassed the long-standing national animations such as Astro Boy and Sazae-san. It is undoubtedly a pillar-level comic.
It is no exaggeration to say that this comic book can support an entire magazine.
"Thank you very much, Editor-in-Chief Sasaki. This is all the result of your and the teachers' hard work. If you have any requests for salary, please feel free to ask."
Sasaki came to report the good news not for the salary. The salary the company paid to editors and authors was already high enough, so high that they were afraid of being envied by their peers.
Not only "Arale", but also "Poison Count Cain" and so on, including the TV series adaptation of "Inuyasha" in which Ms. Oshima herself participated, and the manga "Inuyasha" written by Rumiko Takahashi, which now has many loyal readers.
Sasaki even had a hunch that in the near future, they might be as famous as old companies like Shueisha and Shogakukan. And he was the founder, which was really exciting.
The good news was of course gratifying, but Ling was not surprised. It was "Arale" and it was Akira Toriyama.
That cute girl whose hobby was to split the earth in half with one palm and smash the moon with one punch is the childhood memory of many people.
However, "Arale" was just a trial run, and the subsequent "Dragon Ball" was the real pinnacle.
Arale and Astro Boy are similar in that a doctor creates a robot and treats it as his own child. People in the island countries of this era probably like this kind of fantasy.
But what’s interesting is that in the island countries, most of these AI robots are portrayed as kind. In Europe and the United States, both Skynet in “Terminator” and the agents in “The Matrix” can be regarded as horror disaster films.
"A robot with artificial intelligence." Ling also sighed inexplicably.
In this world full of aliens and monsters, it’s not really a strange thing, you never know.
However, if they really appear, will they be a quirky character like Arale, a messenger of justice who maintains peace like Astro Boy, or a terrible monster like Skynet and the agents who exterminate humanity?
I really hope it's the former.
Chapter 482 Artificial Intelligence
"How are you, Nanyuan, Beidao, are you okay?"
The two men's patrol car overturned and they were taken to the Central Hospital. Araki and Kotaro came to the hospital to visit them on behalf of the entire team.
"It's nothing, I just sprained my neck." Bei Dao had a traction device on his neck.
Nanyuan had a broken hand.
Not long ago, the patrol car the two were riding in was completely overturned, and they saw the legendary woman in a wedding dress.
She even lifted up the patrol car and threw it off the trail.
Fortunately, the two realized something was wrong and jumped out of the car. Otherwise, they would have lost their lives.
"What did that woman feel when she saw it with her own eyes?" Araki asked.
Compared to the pictures, they are the only two people in the ZAT team who have come into contact with each other.
Nanyuan looked at Beidao, but the other party couldn't move his neck and couldn't make eye contact with him. So Nanyuan could only express his feelings.
"That can't be human!"
"sure?"
"Deputy Captain, you know that our Rabbit Bear patrol car weighs nearly 2 tons, but you can't imagine that the woman grabbed the chassis with both hands and lifted the car above her head like a barbell! And..."
"And what?"
Naruto swallowed.
"She's laughing. She's laughing happily."
Araki didn't quite understand what Nanhara was trying to say. Is there anything strange about laughing?
But if you put yourself in their shoes, laughing happily in that kind of environment does seem to make people feel uneasy.
Nanyuan couldn't describe that laughter in words. Only he and Beidao, who had heard it with their own ears, could understand the strange feeling.
At this time, a calling voice came from Araki's communicator.
"I'm Araki."
"Deputy Captain, please come back with Kotaro." It was Moriyama's voice on the communicator.
"Is there any progress in the case?"
"Yes, we received a call from someone to the police... No, it was a voluntary surrender... That doesn't seem right either. A young man contacted us and said that the woman who was vandalizing cars was his mother."
The Metropolitan Police Department had previously published the woman's photo in newspapers to collect clues. There were no clues in the past few days, until today, when someone suddenly came to the ZAT team and said they wanted to provide clues.
The young man's name is Shimada Tatsuo, and the mother he was talking about had been dead for ten years.
Died in a car accident ten years ago.
"Are you sure that's your mother?"
When Araki and Kotaro returned to the base, Captain Asahina was personally questioning them in the reception room.
"Of course I am sure. Look, this is a photo of my mother!"
What Shimada took out was a wedding photo. In that era, the only photo that could be captured in front of a camera was a wedding photo.
But because of this, the person in the photo he took out was exactly the same as the one taken by the reporter.
"Tatsuo? Isn't this Tatsuo? When did you return to Tokyo?"
"Why, Kotaro, is this someone you know?"
Tatsuo heard the sound and saw Kotaro.
"It's Kotaro! When did you join the ZAT team? I just came back from the dock two days ago."
The two had known each other on a ship in the past, and Tatsuo was also a sailor on an ocean-going ship.
Since he was someone he knew, it was easy to talk about. Chen Fu was no longer shy about talking about some things.
"I suspect that was a robot made by my father. Ever since my mother died in a car accident, my father has been acting strange. He has become supernatural and recently joined a group called the 'Truth Church'. He has become even weirder."
Ueno laughed when he heard that.
"You said a robot! How is that possible? Humans don't have this kind of technology. Do you think it's Astro Boy?"
Dr. Tenma's beloved son Tobio died in a traffic accident. In despair, he made a robot in the image of his son and named it Astro Boy.
The righteous Astro Boy uses the atomic power reactor as energy and begins to fight against evil.
This was a work by Osamu Tezuka ten years ago, which was very popular in Japan. But obviously, it was just a fantasy.
"You don't believe me? I know where my father's laboratory is. I'll take you there!"
It is called a laboratory, but in fact it is just a dilapidated hut on a wasteland in the suburbs, waiting to be demolished at any time.
But after Kotaro and Araki went in, they found that there was a basement under the cabin, which was a different world.
Precision machine tools, high-tech instruments, and bionic human body parts made of unknown materials.
It was like a cut-up corpse. Only Kotaro and Araki were brave. A timid person would be scared to death.
It's really too high-tech. Even if scientists from the Meteor Technology Team were to come, they might not be able to explain it immediately.
"Is your father a famous scientist?"
"of course not."
Tatsuo also found it strange, but if his father was a great scientist, would he still need to go fishing at sea?
"My dad didn't even go to college. He later worked in a car repair shop and liked to go sea fishing."
The biggest influence his father had on him was his interest in sea fishing, otherwise he would not have gone out to sea to work as a sailor on a fishing boat after graduating from high school.
"That's weird."
Not only is it strange, but it cannot be explained by common sense.
To create such a bionic man, artificial intelligence, materials science, and precision machinery are involved. A single chip alone is decades ahead of today's cutting-edge technology. Astro Boy and Arale are only in the story. It would be too abrupt for them to suddenly appear in reality.
"Captain, I brought Mr. Shimada here."
From above came Ueno's voice, and then the creaking of worn wooden stairs.