Chapter 11
If Ultraman did not fight little monsters, then Ultraman would have no reason to exist.
But Su Mo could not be bothered to go out and catch bugs. Just as he was thinking of letting the matter drop, a mosquito flew over.
His eyes instantly lit up. A single brood of mosquitoes could produce so many.
When the time came, he could just toss them outside Blue Star and let these mosquitoes find their own food.
After all, there was currently only this one civilization in Su Mo's Microcosm. In other words, if these mosquitoes wanted to survive, they would have to attack Blue Star.
As for modifying them, what the hell was there to modify about mosquitoes?
Enlarging them would make them monsters in itself, but he still had to speed things up and let those mosquitoes hatch.
As the saying went, female mosquitoes did not buzz, but male mosquitoes did. As it happened, the one in front of him was a silent, bloodsucking female.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Mo grabbed it and tossed it into the Microcosm.
For an ordinary person, catching a mosquito barehanded without training really would have been a little difficult, but Su Mo was different.
Although he had never trained, after destroying the world so many times, his Divine Rank had risen. Although he still could not use anything on Earth that exceeded this universe's laws, his body was constantly growing stronger.
At least catching a mosquito was nothing difficult.
After the mosquito was tossed into the Microcosm, under accelerated time, the female mosquito hatched over three hundred mosquitoes in a mere instant.
Every one of these mosquitoes was over three hundred meters long, and the largest female mosquito reached over six hundred meters.
Normally, these mosquitoes would also need food and energy to hatch and grow, but this time Su Mo provided it for them.
Afterward, however, they would have to find their own food. As for whether they could survive in this universe, that was their problem.
These things had no intelligence anyway. Without even intelligence, there was even less chance of them creating a mosquito civilization.
At most, they could only count as monsters in this universe. Hmm, he would call them Starry Sky Behemoths.
Although Su Mo had said he would not modify them, to keep them from dying in the vacuum, he still gave them an ability that allowed them to survive in it.
After finishing all this, Su Mo returned to his recliner and lay down again.
During the time Su Mo spent accelerating the mosquitoes' hatching, another thirty years passed on Blue Star.
Over those thirty years, all the damaged fortresses were fully repaired.
All five Giants of Light were also equipped with more powerful combat systems and weapons.
Even the existing fortresses were all reinforced.
In addition, through the efforts of all the Three-Eyed People, the three completely destroyed fortresses had been half rebuilt.
They believed that as long as everyone worked together, another twenty years would be enough to finish the remaining half.
Everything seemed to be back on track.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Liu Dajun, who had been taken to the hospital after a car accident and lay in a deep coma in an operating room, was also undergoing intensive efforts to save his life.
In the Microcosm, Liu Dajun had felt constantly unsettled lately, as though something were continually tugging at his soul.
He frequently fell into prolonged dazes, even feeling that time was slowing down, as though a time difference were being adjusted. Often, a single daze lasted most of the day.
However, after that incident, he had stayed home for all thirty years. Although the incident had not been made public, and all the citizens of the Ultra Empire thought those monsters were merely a coincidence,
the empire's higher-ups and his family still knew. So when they saw Liu Dajun frequently falling into dazes, no one bothered him, merely assuming he was blaming himself for what had happened.
That day, Zoffy came to visit Liu Dajun as usual. Seeing him still sitting on the sofa in a daze, he shook his head and ultimately chose to leave.
In fact, in the more than a hundred years since Liu Dajun had arrived in this world, he had not only designed the Giant of Light, Ultraman Tiga, but also introduced many measures that benefited the people.
For example, stools, sofas, buses... and a whole range of other things this world had never had.
After all, the people of this world had originally been focused solely on how to face the world-ending catastrophe that came once every thousand years. Those at the top simply did not care about such less important things.
Those at the bottom indulged themselves recklessly and did not care about these things either, but Liu Dajun had brought about many changes after arriving.
The many everyday goods he introduced not only brought a little warmth to the hearts of the empty masses at the bottom, but he also gave numerous speeches, letting them know what those above them were doing and why. This even led the lower classes, who had previously been indifferent to the affairs of those above them, to gradually unite.
That was why Liu Dajun could stand alongside Ultra V and the others in the Ultra Empire's highest research laboratory and take on the design of the Giant of Light, Ultraman Tiga.
One could even say his popular support among the lower classes was greater than Ultra V's.
Liu Dajun was still in a daze. Zoffy glanced at him and left.
Originally, this too seemed to be an ordinary day, but a new storm had already appeared...
Dozens of terrifying behemoths, each over three hundred meters long, arrived above Blue Star.
The moment they appeared, they were detected by the satellite, the Eye of Ultra.
The five Giants of Light activated instantly, while massive cannons rose within the various fortresses.
These things had all been built after the previous incident.
The five Giants of Light flew out of Blue Star and fought these monsters directly in space, but two fists could not beat four hands, let alone more than thirty mosquitoes.
Although these mosquitoes were not large compared with the Giants of Light, only about a third of their size, there were simply too many of them!
In fact, they had not initially seen so many mosquitoes, only a dozen or so, but after entering space, they discovered there were far more monsters here than that.
At first, they indeed only needed to face a dozen or so, and these monsters' companions did not come to help. Seeing this, they breathed a sigh of relief.
But then they realized something was wrong. It was true that these monsters were not helping their companions, but they were flying toward Blue Star!
Their purpose in coming out was to prevent these monsters from entering Blue Star, yet now these things were heading straight for it. How could they allow that?
So they dragged all these monsters into the battlefield as well. As the fighting continued, more and more monsters appeared. These monsters were also fast and extremely agile. Although their defenses were weak, and any hit could seriously injure or even kill them,
the fact remained that there were simply too many of them. They could not fight them all!
Original Ultraman frowned deeply at the sight, but ultimately gave the order, "Lure them into the ocean regions. We'll provide artillery support!"
Then, under the command of Original Ultraman and Zoffy, all sixty-odd mosquitoes were wiped out in the depths of the ocean.
Faced with the monsters' reappearance, everyone fell silent.
Liu Dajun's words kept echoing in their minds as well: [Wherever there is Ultraman, monsters will appear!]
The weight of those words kept growing.
After a long silence in the laboratory, Zoffy said, "Although there were more monsters this time, they weren't powerful. Besides, we're no longer what we were before. All the fortresses have also been fitted with powerful weapons.
"Against monsters like those just now, even without deploying the Giants of Light, the fortresses' firepower alone could wipe them out."
"Just keep defending your brother-in-law. If it weren't for him..."
Hearing this, Ultra V immediately snapped, "Shut up! Liu Dajun didn't do this intentionally either. Don't bring this up again. Someone go get Liu Dajun and see whether he knows what kind of monster this is."
A short while later, Liu Dajun arrived at the laboratory. Looking at the enormous mosquito in the picture, he felt rather dazed.
It looked somewhat familiar, but he could not place it right away.
Memories churned through his mind, and a moment later, he finally realized that this was actually a picture of a mosquito.
But where had they gotten this picture? Did this world have mosquitoes too?
Fortunately, what he saw was a mosquito in a picture. If he had seen it in person, he really might not have recognized this enormous beast, over three hundred meters long, as a mosquito.
This monster invasion had not appeared directly within the empire's territory, so many people did not even know monsters had appeared.
Even Liu Dajun, who had already been isolated at home in retirement, had only just learned about it.
Just as he was about to say that he recognized this thing, he suddenly felt his consciousness being pulled farther and farther away, as though it were about to leave this body and this world.
To the others, however, Liu Dajun had simply started staring into space again.
In the real world's emergency room, two doctors repeatedly pressed a defibrillator against Liu Dajun's chest. Dozens of wires were also attached to his forehead, displaying his heartbeat, brain waves, and all his other vital signs.
"There's a response! His brain waves are returning to normal. He's about to wake up."
One doctor spoke happily. Honestly, this was their first time encountering such an absurd situation.
His injuries clearly were not particularly serious. His head had merely suffered an impact, but there was no intracranial bleeding or wound, and all his vital signs were normal. Yet he simply remained unconscious.
They had actually already given up and planned to notify his family that he had entered a vegetative state, but whenever they had such thoughts, a distinct fluctuation would appear in his brain waves.
Then, when they resumed their efforts, everything would settle down again.
Honestly, they had never encountered anything like this in their lives. If he was going to wake up, he should hurry up and wake up. If not, he should just lie there. What the hell was this nonsense?
Zoffy frowned, stepped forward, shook Liu Dajun hard, and scolded him:
"Liu Dajun, what's wrong with you? The king is asking you a question! Do you recognize this thing or not?"
Liu Dajun abruptly came to his senses. "I recognize this thing. In our world, it's called a mosquito, but yours looks a little big. The largest mosquitoes in our world are only a little over three centimeters, but this one..."
"Didn't you say before that monsters were formed when certain creatures mutated?"
"Yes."
"This thing probably mutated and became a monster, which is why it looks like this. Since you know what it is, sorry for the trouble, but please write down its information and habits so we can record them. I suspect these things will appear again."
Liu Dajun nodded, then began writing down the information.
In the real world.
"What the hell is going on with this guy? Why are there no brain wave readings again? What on earth is wrong with him?!!!"
In the little courtyard, Su Mo lay in his recliner with a thoughtful expression, continually pondering just what was going on here.
Should he let the man return to Earth or not?
Or rather, even if this guy came back, could he really still adapt to life on Earth?
And would he reveal anything outrageous?
At that thought, Su Mo immediately laughed. Even if the man talked about what had happened in there, someone would have to believe him first.