Moreover, it was foreseeable that with the arrival of Blue Blood Blade and Sakura Saber, the sub-base would be expanded further, and its total personnel would continue rising past the hundred-thousand mark.
Even if just one-thousandth of that involved personnel movement each day, there would still be several hundred people.
Using private aircraft for transport would not be a waste of resources.
Luo Bing waited nearby for quite a while, yet the person they were expecting never appeared.
The four of them exchanged puzzled looks.
She was clearly a bald big shot. With such a distinctive feature, how could they have missed her?
It was not until a mature, beautiful woman with long blue hair approached the four of them.
"Are you looking for me?"
The blue-haired woman spoke lazily, carrying herself with an air of indifference.
Everyone studied her carefully for a while and discovered...
It seemed that she really was the person they were looking for.
Her facial features, appearance, and figure all looked quite similar. It was just that blue hair that made them hesitate.
Dr. Chen glanced at the young people but said nothing.
She raised her right hand and brushed it over the top of her head. In an instant, the long blue hair came off, revealing a gleaming bald head before everyone!
Good. Now they could be certain—she really was the bald Dr. Chen!
The three girls present—whether it was the lively Lin Wange, the quiet Koizumi Junko, or the aloof Lin Changge—were all somewhat dumbfounded.
They looked at the elegant short blue hair, then at Dr. Chen's bare scalp, and for a moment found it hard to accept.
Dr. Chen herself remained perfectly calm. As though this were nothing unusual, she explained:
"Growing hair is a very time-consuming thing. Especially after it gets long, washing and grooming it takes ten minutes every day."
"Wouldn't it be better to use that time for two small experiments?"
"So bald heads are best suited for researchers. I'm promoting this idea to other research institutes, but those old fossils think I'm making trouble for no reason."
"Hmph. I think they're the ones making trouble for no reason."
After muttering to herself for a while, Dr. Chen put the wig back on.
Her gaze shifted toward the stunned Luo Bing as she said:
"Young man, don't fall for me. I'm not in the mood to take care of someone your age."
"Men only delay my research progress!"
"It's getting late. Take me to General Luo. I want to see whether the place he prepared for me is fully ready!"
Dr. Chen spoke with remarkable familiarity, as though she were not an outsider at all.
Titan Beasts and Extraterrestrial Monsters 2
Luo Bing occasionally glanced at Chen Yuxin's blue hair, somewhat curious and wanting another look at that egg-shaped bald head.
He had long held the impression that bald people were all big shots.
But seeing a blue-haired beauty lift off her wig and reveal a smooth, shining forehead beneath it...
The feeling was extremely strange.
Just like her hairstyle, Chen Yuxin gave off an efficient, decisive air. She did things without dragging her feet and never wasted time on unimportant matters.
The moment she stepped off the private aircraft, before she had even caught her breath, she took the initiative to search for Old Luo.
As Luo Bing led the way, he wondered whether Old Luo had predicted this scene in advance and deliberately hidden himself first.
You sly old man. With those thick brows and big eyes, who would have thought you could be so crafty?
"I rushed here as soon as I received the news. There was no other way to obtain information on the road."
Dr. Chen softly asked:
"After the Beast King acted at midnight tonight, did he appear again?"
Luo Bing shook his head in response.
Dr. Chen did not mind. Instead, she furrowed her brows and muttered a few words.
Luo Bing's body had been enhanced, and so had his hearing.
He heard Dr. Chen murmuring to herself:
"Does he prefer nighttime activity?"
"There are too few examples. We still need to observe him several more times before making a preliminary judgment."
Dr. Chen then asked another question:
"Has Yamata shown any signs of activity?"
Everyone scratched their heads in confusion.
Koizumi Junko was the one who answered softly:
"As far as I know, he has been sleeping inside Mount Fuji without any movement."
Luo Bing asked at the right moment:
"What is Yamata?"
After thinking for a moment, Dr. Chen answered:
"Before the Beast King appeared, Yamata had always been recorded as top-secret information in the archives of various countries and had never been made public."
"Eight years ago, Yamata appeared for the first and only time. He strangled the Serrated Mammoth that passed through the Mount Fuji region, then returned to Mount Fuji, where he has slept ever since."
"Sakurajima reported to the public that it was a deadly battle between monsters. Ordinary people only cared whether one monster had died or both had died. They did not pay attention to the details."
"When Yamata strangled the Serrated Mammoth, he displayed traits similar to the Beast King's. He actively attacked the monster, yet did not actively attack humans."
"However, a ground resistance organization attacked Yamata as well. Then Yamata casually wiped them all out before returning to Mount Fuji."
As Dr. Chen introduced Yamata to them, she searched through her phone and pulled up a photograph.
The photo showed Mount Fuji during a volcanic eruption, but there was an even more shocking sight within it.
A massive fiery-red serpent with eight heads was winding its way into the crater.
The longest head of the eight-headed serpent in the photograph had already touched the scorching magma, yet it was completely unaffected. It even seemed to be enjoying itself.
Looking at the giant serpent's crimson skin and the way its heads played freely in the lava, one could not help but wonder:
Could the blood flowing through this monster's veins be magma?
Dr. Chen put away her phone and continued calmly:
"Yamata is extremely similar to the Eight-headed Serpent of myth and legend, making people suspect that this eight-headed serpent might truly be the one from mythology."
"Based on Yamata, I proposed the Titan Beast hypothesis. But at the time, only Yamata had been discovered, and he returned to Mount Fuji and slept until now. I had no further supporting evidence, so the hypothesis could not proceed."
At this point, Dr. Chen, who had remained calm all along, gained a spark of light in her eyes:
"Now, the Beast King's appearance means my hypothesis is no longer alone. Besides Yamata, there are other research subjects!"
Luo Bing listened silently, his expression shifting without revealing any emotion.
Having heard this, Lin Changge asked:
"Dr. Chen, if your hypothesis is truly correct, and Titan Beasts are determined to be neutral giants, then what can Yamata and the Beast King alone prove?"
Dr. Chen looked at Lin Changge with some appreciation.
"You've raised a crucial point. That's right, what can all this prove?"
"If Titan Beasts can coexist peacefully with humanity and live together with us on this planet, then it proves that they, like us, are native inhabitants of this world!"
"If they were not native inhabitants, then as long as these giant beasts rejected humanity, how could humanity, with its meager strength in the past, have survived until today?"
"Therefore, I boldly conclude that Titan Beasts, like us, are part of this planet. They are native inhabitants, and that is why they do not reject us!"
Dr. Chen continued:
"But those monsters with their savage nature are different! They are cruel and warlike, brutal and bloodthirsty, and they will not stop hunting humanity until we are dead!"
"Young hero pilots, think about it. If monsters that bore such immense hatred for humanity had lived on Earth's surface hundreds or even thousands of years ago, how could we possibly have survived back then?"
"Therefore, I boldly hypothesize that these monsters running rampant across Earth are all foreign species—invaders from beyond Earth!"
Lin Wange fell into thought.
"Extraterrestrial species? Then where did they come from?"
Dr. Chen answered with absolute certainty:
"Perhaps the Underground World. Or perhaps passages connecting to other worlds have appeared in the deep sea!"
"After monsters began appearing in large numbers over twenty years ago, humanity lost control over the oceans and has been defending passively ever since."
"At first, experts believed these monsters had been dormant in the past, which was why they had not appeared. But that speculation has become increasingly unconvincing."
"We need new evidence. We need to know the truth. We cannot continue sitting around and waiting to die—we must counterattack the oceans!"
"Titan Beasts like the Beast King are our hope for striking back!"
Dr. Chen's voice gradually became more impassioned:
"Do you know that in the legends of the past, beings like the Eight-headed Serpent, the Kraken, and the Behemoth were all extremely rare individual cases? Yet Yamata and the Beast King match the images described in those myths and legends."
"They are powerful. They bear goodwill toward humanity—or at least maintain a neutral attitude. They do not slaughter indiscriminately!"
"But toward monsters, they are hostile! Yamata did not hesitate to strangle the Serrated Mammoth that passed through Mount Fuji, while the Beast King went all the way to the Pacific Ocean overnight and killed four monsters in a single day!"
"These are the allies we need to win over!"
By this point, Lin Wange vaguely understood.
She looked at Dr. Chen and asked one more question:
"This should all be classified information, right? You're telling us so openly—aren't you afraid of being held accountable?"
Dr. Chen was utterly calm.
"This is indeed classified information, but it will not remain so for much longer."
"Titan Beasts like the Beast King and Yamata may be rare, but they are definitely not isolated cases!"
"We will soon make the existence of Titan Beasts public worldwide and mobilize the strength of the entire world to search for them!"
"In the future, Titan Beasts will be the strongest pillar against the monsters!"
Lin Wange muttered softly:
"Mechs can do all that too!"
The Nocturnal King of Monsters! 3
Luo Bing's ears twitched, but he did not point it out.
He knew that beneath Lin Wange's seemingly carefree personality was an unyielding stubbornness.
It was a conviction called perseverance.
At the same time, Lin Wange's love and trust for mechs were beyond what others could match.
If she did not love them in her heart, then with her personality of not caring much about anything, she would not have remained in the primary pilot seat all this time.
If she did not care about mechs, she would have stepped down long ago and happily slacked off instead.
Still, Luo Bing did not know whether the girl's persistence was right or wrong.
The development of mechs had already reached a bottleneck. Everyone knew that.
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