Izumaru's travel notes

"Telestone?"

After returning to the xio base, Takamiya explained the whole story and uploaded the video recorded by the xio terminal to the main screen. Based on the data comparison, it was determined that the monster was the G-form Teleston.

"Who is that woman?" A'du asked.

"We are comparing them here."

But Hayato thought of a legend: "It is said that there is an underground woman under the city who drags people into the tunnel and eats them. I don't know if it is her."

"I don't know if she eats people, but it's strange that she didn't die after being slapped by me."

Chonggong touched his chin and didn't feel any scent from the same kind, so it shouldn't be the shadow's doing.

"It's hard to kill someone with just one slap, isn't it? Takamiya-san..."

Before Hayato finished speaking, he saw that Takamiya's arms were completely deformed. The white arms looked very powerful with the golden embellishments, not to mention the golden claws still glowed coldly under the soft light.

"Let me remind you, this is my claw."

Takamiya moved his fingers, and Hayato realized that the golden claw was just a punch, and the real claw was underneath the terrifyingly sharp white claw.

"you mean…"

Facing Captain Shenmu's gaze, Chonggong shook his head: "I'm not sure either. But anyway, if we catch her, we'll know everything."

But for several days, there was no news from the other party, which surprised Chonggong.

"I say, Chonggong-san, is it true that she wasn't beaten to death? It's been several days."

Hayato leaned back in his chair and looked at Takamiya.

"Probably not. She and Teleston were in a master-servant relationship. How could Teleston not go crazy immediately after the master died?"

In response to Takamiya's question, Hayato shut his mouth in disappointment and began to browse useful information on the Internet.

Meanwhile, the facial recognition of the woman also yielded a result. It matched that of a woman named Mabushi Ryoko, but she had died in a car accident a month ago.

"In other words, both investigation directions are now blocked?"

Captain Shenmu frowned slightly. If it weren't for Chonggong's video, they wouldn't have taken a small earthquake as proof of the appearance of a monster. But...

Chonggong was also very surprised, as it shouldn't be like this.

On the other side, Dadi's analysis of the sound waves of the underground woman also yielded results. In the sound waves, he detected some anger, panic, and a lot of sadness.

"What is she sad about?"

The earth is puzzled.

And on the other side, underground, in a special space...

"puff!"

The underground girl fell heavily against the wall, spitting out a large stream of black blood. Not far from her, Teleston was knocked to the ground by a mechanical shark's tail. The huge steel tail hit the other party heavily, and the corner of its mouth was full of blood.

"What a waste! He was discovered right after he made his move."

In front of the underground woman, a man in black clothes, black pants and sunglasses was looking at her with his hands in his pockets.

"me…"

The underground girl looked up and staggered to her feet.

“…I know I was wrong.”

The underground woman wiped the black blood from her lips and looked at the man.

"Give me another chance, and I will definitely complete the task."

"It's better this way, otherwise, you will know what it feels like to be reduced to ashes under the scorching sun."

The man said as he rolled a tube of green liquid over.

"Give this to Teleston before he faces off with Aix."

The man in black said this and left. The surrounding space suddenly spread out like a water curtain. The spatial fluctuation at this moment was instantly sensed by Chonggong.

"found it."

Chonggong's fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard, and soon, an underground tunnel in the T-7B area was marked out by him.

"Are you here? Daichi, Asuna, leave now!"

A truck painted bright yellow quickly drove out of the XIO base from the basement and headed towards the marked underground tunnel.

However, Takamiya had already taken a step ahead. He instantly teleported to the scene with Adu and Hayato, but he found nothing. There was only a pool of black blood on the ground, emitting a foul smell of corruption.

A'du endured the stench and used the xio terminal to scan the black blood on the ground. After the genetic comparison was completed, it was confirmed that it was undoubtedly Ryoko Mabushi.

"Let her run away again!"

Hayato was furious, but Takamiya looked around, reached out his hand and touched the tunnel, then he touched a black sticky liquid.

"Strange...why is there..."

Chonggong looked at the sticky liquid on his hand, and waved at Adu, signaling him to look at what it was.

“Isn’t this motor oil?”

A'du looked at it for a long time, sniffed it, and confirmed that it was engine oil, but why did this kind of engine oil... have such a faint smell?

After subsequent analysis, it was found that this does not belong to any type of engine oil on the market that is on sale or discontinued.

"Is it a mechanical monster? Is it him?"

In the war room late at night, Takamiya sat alone at his workstation, deep in thought, his fingers constantly tapping the keyboard, repeatedly switching between the monsters in hell and M form. What kind of mechanical monster would be underground...

But after searching for most of the night, looking through it over and over again many times, I almost remembered how many screw holes each body had, but I just couldn't grasp the problem.

"What's wrong? This is the first time I see you scratching your head."

The sensor door opened, and it was Captain Shenmu, who walked in with two cups of coffee.

"Captain Shenmu? You're still awake so late?"

After taking the coffee, Chonggong pulled out the office chair and motioned for him to sit down.

"You haven't even slept yet, how can I, the captain of the Xio, sleep?"

Captain Shenmu smiled, looked at the map and monster information on Chonggong's computer desktop, and asked curiously. "What's wrong?"

"Well... I'm mainly concerned about the engine oil. Teleston is carnivorous and won't drink oil, so I'm wondering if the underground woman has monsters other than Teleston. So I've been comparing them among the mechanical monsters, but I still can't come up with any ideas."

"Could it be a monster that you haven't seen before?" Shenmu guessed.

"Hmm... maybe."

Although Captain Shenmu's words made sense, Chonggong knew that the probability was very low because the underground woman was most likely the work of Shadow.

"You are so powerful, why do you want to stay with us?" Captain Shenmu asked.

“…I am a drifting duckweed, drifting along the tide called history. I wanted to stay in a corner, but there are always people forcing me to step into the spotlight. Joining XIO is also a helpless move, because it is much more convenient to deal with some things with an official identity.”

"If I'm not mistaken...you're married, right?"

Captain Shenmu saw the ring on Chonggong’s left hand. The ring setting was a little old, but the blue corundum on it was still sparkling.

"…Actually, we haven't seen each other for a long time. The last time we spoke was probably… a few years ago?"

Chonggong has now lost the concept of time. After all, the speed of time in each universe is different, and the space-time corridor will also extend your time...

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

The alarm came suddenly, still in the T-7B area, but this time, Teleston broke out of the ground and wreaked havoc on the surroundings.