Across Ultra: Half Dream

Chapter 144 Nexus 8

"Nothing, I just came to chat with you, don't be nervous." Chloe casually took out a sofa from the other side of the door, and then collapsed on the sofa.

This action made Kiraraze Yu's pupils shrink, and he became even more wary, and his tone became more sincere. "What do you want to talk about, Miss Beidou?"

"So you know a lot." Chloe suddenly sat up straight and looked at Kirasawa Yu. "Then, you should also know about the existence of Dark Zaki."

“…I know that.”

"If you knew that, why did you order the attack on Nexus?"

Kiraraze Yu looked at Chloe with a gloomy face and smiled bitterly, "That's because my predictive ability is not strong enough..."

"I'm not here to listen to your nonsense!" Chloe sneered. "Let's take a step back. If I weren't here, only Nexus could help you. Yet you still want to kill him, thinking 'those who are not of my kind must have different hearts.'"

"Furthermore, when he realized he couldn't defeat Nexus and feared retaliation, he tried to seize Nexus's power and take it into his own hands."

Chloe looked at Kirasawa Yu with disdain and said, "You are so brave. Even the Ultra Clan doesn't dare to attack Nexus and we respect him very much."

"And you, a mere puny human, dare to attack Him? How is it that the fate of the visitor hasn't frightened you yet?"

These words shocked Kirasawa Yuu and made him feel a little scared. "The Ultra Clan?"

"Tsk, don't think so much. There's no need for me to explain anything to you humans." Chloe suddenly felt extremely bored, so she opened the door and left.

Before shutting down, it left only one sentence: "How boring! I advise you humans not to destroy yourselves."

Because of Chloe's words, the human top leaders immediately held an emergency meeting.

"What right does that so-called Ultraman have to say that we are courting our own destruction?" Matsunaga Yoichiro angrily slammed the table. The holographic screen replayed the surveillance footage from before Chloe left. "Have you investigated the Ultra Clan she mentioned? And have you analyzed her energy?"

"We're detecting unknown energy fluctuations in Chloe's body." The others wiped their sweat, "But... we haven't found any information about the Ultra Clan she mentioned..."

Another researcher suddenly interjected: "This Ultraman... Damn it, that's the trouble!"

He then pulled up the research data. "She has an unknown energy particle in her body that we haven't found in Nexus. And we haven't found any trace of this energy particle in the bodies of the Xenomorphs. Could this be the difference between the Ultra Clan she mentioned and Nexus, Xenomorphs, and the others?"

Another high-ranking human representative pointed at the data with a greedy look on his face. "The most important thing now is to find the Ultra Clan she mentioned as soon as possible. We'd rather believe what that Ultraman named Chloe said than not. Is this Nexus really as powerful as she says? If we..."

Kiraraze Yu interrupted with a grim expression, "If we really attack the Ultra Clan, can we really bear the consequences?! Humanity is already overwhelmed by the alien beasts, do we really have to add another enemy?!"

"Colonel Kira, there's a saying that goes, the greater the risk, the greater the reward! If we can obtain the power of Ultraman, then we can obtain the power of the Ultra Clan!"

"That's right! As long as we obtain the power of Ultraman, we won't have to rely on outsiders to solve the problem. We can solve it ourselves! A new journey for mankind!"

"Oh~really?" A teasing female voice appeared.

"That's right!"

But after this man finished speaking, he suddenly felt puzzled by the silence around him. He couldn't help but look up, only to see everyone looking at the back of him with horrified expressions.

He turned around in confusion and saw the person he least wanted to see. His expression became more and more terrified, and his body was shaking. "You...how did you get here!"

"Hey, why are you done?" Chloe said, looking at everyone in the conference room with a smile. "Go on, I want to hear how you humans plan to take my power and wipe out my entire Ultra Clan."

There was a moment of silence in the office, and no one dared to speak first.

Although Chloe did not show any anger, the more indifferent her expression was, the more frightened everyone felt and they couldn't help but shrink back.

Seeing the humans as silent as a chicken, Chloe turned her head to the side and continued to call out names with a smile, "Hey, isn't this Chief of Staff Kira? If they don't say it, you say it."

Cold sweat broke out on Kiraraze Yu's forehead, and his legs trembled slightly, but he still said with a smile on his face: "Ms. Beidou, we are just discussing possibilities and have no plans to actually take action."

"Humanity is currently facing the threat of alien beasts. We are all trying to find more ways to resolve the crisis for humanity. We have no intention of offending the Ultra Clan."

Chloe crossed her arms and scanned everyone with a cold gaze. "Humph, I don't care if you're discussing or planning to take action. I'm only warning you once."

An invisible force suddenly spread out from Chloe's body and pressed everyone to the ground, unable to move, which infinitely magnified the fear in everyone's hearts.

Chloe scoffed at everyone's reactions, her calm tone tinged with murderous intent. "The Ultra Clan will not sit idly by and watch you attack Nexus, nor will we tolerate you attempting to covet our power. However, if you insist on proceeding, I hope you humans will be able to bear the consequences."

After saying that, Chloe no longer cared about everyone's reactions. She simply opened the door and left. The conference room fell into silence again.

After they felt the force suppressing them disappear, they slowly rose to their feet, sweating profusely, and looked at each other in bewilderment. They finally understood that Ultraman had seen through their ambitions. If they acted rashly again, it would bring disaster upon humanity.

Matsunaga Yoichiro trembled, still looking at the direction where Chloe left with some reluctance. "Damn it! If I could get it... How could someone threaten me like this!"

Kirara Zeyou's expression was calm. "Let's just forget about this matter and don't mention it again. If she finds out, we will be accomplices in the destruction of humanity."

Everyone recalled their close encounter with death, and a trace of fear flashed across their faces. Finally, they nodded, said goodbye and left the meeting room, leaving only Kirasawa Yu and Matsunaga Yoichiro.

After an unknown amount of time, the two men finally emerged from the conference room. One had a look of helplessness on his face, the other one of stubbornness.

Even if Chloe, who had already left, knew, she would have shrugged nonchalantly. She had already warned everyone she needed to, and if the humans still insisted on going their own way, there was nothing she could do but teach them a lesson.

As the days passed, Chloe continued to experiment with compressing her own energy to create an energy body.

After failing again, he rubbed his brows wearily. "What am I missing? I keep failing..."

"If it's a clone, then its energy is essentially the same as mine, so it'll be easily decomposed... I want to live like a normal person, but at the same time, I want them to be unable to obtain it... Phew... It's too difficult... What should I do... If only Hikari-sensei were here..."

At this time, Saita Riko, whose body had been used, woke up and kept saying the word "puppet", which made Chloe's eyes light up.

Then, Chloe quickly separated a figure from Saida Riko's body and caught Saida Riko who was about to fall. "Sister Riko, are you awake?"

But strangely, Saita Riko still had her eyes closed, showing no sign of waking up. This puzzled Chloe, so she had no choice but to merge back into her body.

Chloe thought about the word "puppet" and wondered what materials to use. Once she came up with a material, she started making it, but her experiments were mostly unsuccessful.

Either human instruments detected that it was not human, or it was not a living creature. This forced Chloe to suspend the experiment after failing hundreds of times.

Chloe walked out of the lab and collapsed on the sofa. "Isn't a puppet just a controlled clone formed by an energy body? What's wrong? Does it need a medium?"

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Chloe's mind, "Maybe this is the way to go!" She rushed back to the laboratory and tried again.

A few days later, amidst a burst of triumphant laughter and Himeya Jun's confused look, Chloe's experiment was successful.

Looking at the perfect Himeya puppet before her, Chloe put her hands on her hips and smiled triumphantly. She then placed the puppet into her bracelet and walked out of the lab.

As soon as she went out, Chloe saw Himeya Jun with a concerned look on his face. Her eyes were filled with confusion. "Jun, why are you looking at me like that?"