With Qi Ming leading the way, the three of them arrived safely at Chidori Koizumi's home.
After searching around, Chidori Koizumi found a notebook beneath the bed.
"It's Father's research notebook!"
Qi Ming immediately took it and flipped through it. What he found inside chilled him to the bone.
"I underestimated King Poggle's wolfish ambitions," Qi Ming said with a sigh.
King Poggle had used ultrasonic waves to control Dr. Koizumi, devising plans to sever the Dragon Vein and nail down the main vein in order to intensify the conflict between humans and Earth's monsters.
He had hoped the two sides would fight each other to mutual ruin, allowing him to reap the rewards, clear away every obstacle, and become the ruler of both the surface and the underground Earth.
There was nothing wrong with that part. Qi Ming's deduction had been correct.
But the problem was that King Poggle had not merely directed humanity's hatred toward the underground monsters led by Ren Dragon.
The notebook clearly recorded that beneath the Underground City construction site lay a civilization called "Dilos."
Dilos!
This was the underground civilization from the final arc of Ultraman Max!
This civilization was immensely powerful, yet rational and restrained.
In the original series, humanity's prolonged economic activities had damaged the ozone layer, allowing the sun's harmful radiation to penetrate underground. Only then had they launched their counterattack.
But in this world, humans were building on a massive scale directly above the Dilos Civilization, using PW Waves to destroy rock formations and dig deep pits, constantly shrinking the "buffer zone" between the surface and Dilos.
In the eyes of the Dilos Civilization, this was undoubtedly preparation for an invasion!
That was even more terrifying than digging on a tiger's head!
Seeing Qi Ming fall silent, Emi asked, "What's