Moonlight team, are you awake?

After listening to Photon read out this series of announcements, I roughly understood the reasoning behind it.

After a moment's thought, I made up my mind: "Let's buy a Black King."

"Huh? Are we going to spend all the money we have right now?" Photon looked at the balance on the screen with some reluctance. 3000 Star Coins was all the income she had earned in all her time on Earth.

3000 Star Coins may not sound like much, but their purchasing power is very strong. A few hundred Star Coins are enough to buy a spaceship. On the surface, 3000 Star Coins may seem like just hiring a Black King, and it's a one-time use item. But in reality, this purchase can be translated as "spending 3000 Star Coins to annihilate a mid-to-lower level planetary civilization".

In other words, 3000 coins are enough to buy the life of an entire planet.

Such an exaggerated income could only occur under such bizarre circumstances as Earth is facing a hellish start unlike any other in the universe, and the entire universe wants to know how the story will unfold. In reality, it would be like a reckless person taking a camera and live-streaming the process of a city being nuclearly destroyed.

I could understand Guangzi's reluctance. He patted Guangzi on the shoulder and explained, "As long as we survive, we can earn more than 3000 coins in the future, even 30,000 or 300,000 coins. As the saying goes, 'Where there's life, there's hope.' If we don't live to spend all the money we earn, it will just be left to your family as an inheritance..."

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Upon hearing "spread the message to your family," Guangzi's eyes immediately became incredibly determined, and he placed the order without saying another word.

"I'd work so hard to earn money, only to die before I could enjoy it, and then my family would have to take over my life. I absolutely don't want that kind of thing!" Guangzi shouted, still feeling a bit scared.

"...It seems your relationship with your family isn't very good, huh?" I didn't expect her to react so strongly.

"Nonsense! If we were even slightly closer, I wouldn't have come all this way to this godforsaken place!"

"So what exactly did you have a conflict with your family?"

"Don't try to understand things about aliens so much!!"

Chapter Twelve: Special Training for King Black

Less than a day after I placed the order, a very gentlemanly man in a suit knocked on the door. I was resting and waiting to receive the goods when I opened the door. I thought he was there to sell insurance. Just as I was about to refuse, he politely showed me his naker head.

"Hello, I am Nackle Brot, the Nackle alien in charge of delivery. Please sign for the Black King you purchased."

"They even offer home delivery?" Meng was shocked; he had thought they would airdrop something.

"You're joking. As a professional seller, home delivery is just one of the most basic services we should provide."

Then, Nacker took out an exquisitely crafted capsule from his suitcase. It was silver all over and looked very metallic. It was decorated with red patterns, which had a style reminiscent of the Showa era.

"This is the bodyguard monster Black King that you purchased. It is now sealed in a capsule. You have one chance to use it. When you decide to use Black King, simply press the top of the capsule and confirm with your mind, and the capsule will open."

"In addition, the maximum usage time for King Black is 30 minutes of Earth time. After 30 minutes, the capsule will be automatically retracted and cannot be opened again. Automatic retraction by the buyer will also count as one use. If the user suffers excessive damage, the capsule will also be automatically retracted and the use will be consumed."

The other party gave a brief introduction to how to use Black King and various precautions. At the same time, he also explained the doubts in my mind. He had been thinking that the seller could guarantee that the other party could only use it once. Moreover, if the other party used the monster he bought to fight a battle where he was sure to die, or even directly sent his own life to death, wouldn't the seller lose everything?

Now it makes sense. Monsters will be forcibly retrieved when they are injured to a certain extent. Even fatal injuries have at least a process of inflicting damage. As long as the retrieval is fast enough, the monster's death can be avoided.

I dreamt of holding that small capsule in my hand, and for the first time, I felt a sense of peace in my heart.

In this way, our side's lineup has expanded to V1 Gaia + Taganura + Black King, with three combat units, including melee, ranged, and acrobatic fighters. This team's combat power is already quite considerable.

The only drawback is that King Black can only be used once. However, if a battle requires King Black to be used, it means that the opponent's level is definitely very high, at least higher than today's level. In that case, the revenue from the live stream will be considerable, and he might even earn another use of King Black in one battle.

After accepting the capsule, I jokingly teased the Nackle aliens who came to deliver it: "Given the current situation on Earth, it's really kind of you to take such a big risk to deliver this package."

"Haha, you're right, so I'm going to make my escape after you sign for it. Goodbye!" Nacker clearly didn't want to stay on Earth for even a second longer. After I signed for it, he disappeared from the spot, probably rushing back to the spaceship to return to Nacker Planet.

"Everyone really avoids Earth like the plague..." I shrugged helplessly.

After bringing the capsule into the house, he pinched Photon, who was fast asleep on the sofa with her mouth open: "Wake up, King Black has arrived."

"Huh?" Photon sat up groggily, brushing a few strands of hair stuck to her face aside, and looked around listlessly: "King Black? Where is King Black?"

“Here it is.” I waved the monster capsule in my hand.

"Oh...it's good that it's arrived. You can figure out how to use it first, I'm going to sleep for a bit more..." With that, Guangzi knelt down on the sofa face down and fell asleep with her butt sticking up.

Last night, I was worried that she would be bored living here alone, so I bought her a game console. I didn't expect her to play it all night long. When I came to my dream this morning, she was still playing with bloodshot eyes from staying up all night.

"This alien is such a loser." I dreamt of the unconscious Photon and curled my lip.

Although King Black's battle time is limited, he can be summoned for "modification" without consuming any attempts or time.

The so-called "modulation" is Black King's exclusive function, which allows buyers to train a specific ability of Black King according to their own needs.

This feature is also one of the reasons why I finally decided to spend all my income to choose it. Among the enemies I need to deal with, the ancient monsters don't have any common abilities. Apart from the evolved enhanced Golza and Flame Golza, which have the ability to absorb light, the other monsters don't have any special superpowers.

Most of the Destruction Bringers rely on numerical values ​​to fill their strength. While powerful generals like the Bird and the Reaper do have the ability to absorb and reflect beams, these two are not worth considering for now. If they were to appear at this time, my V1-level character, Gamu, would basically be out of luck. Those things would require SV to handle.

What really gives me a headache is the Sphia lifeforms. Their warp barrier is really difficult to deal with. What's worse is that these guys can evolve. This time I can kill them by exploiting the balance issue, but next time they will most likely fix this bug.

Therefore, I need a powerful melee fighter to specifically disrupt the warp barrier of the Sphia chimeras. By relying on strong melee attacks, I can prevent them from having the opportunity to cast the warp barrier, and even if they do, it will be dispelled by melee attacks.

To seal off the subspace barrier and then create a fatal opportunity for my dream, the monster executing the operation plan needs to be quick-witted and obedient. In the price range of 3000 yuan, no one is more suitable than Black King.

Without further ado, after obtaining King Black, I immediately drove to the cave in Taganura. He was genuinely worried that if he was even slightly slow, monsters would spawn again.

He was taught a harsh lesson by the intensity of the monster spawns here on his very first day. If he had been even a little slow, his rhythm would have been disrupted.

I rushed to Taganura's burrow as fast as I could. Taganura was practicing weightlifting, hugging a large rock. Clearly, Taganura was aware of its lack of combat power. But would insects really be effective at weightlifting...?

After I arrived in my dream, I picked up the monster translator and explained the matter of King Black to Taganura, and invited Taganura to train King Black together.

The training content is also very simple: after transforming, Imu will fight Black King in close combat. Imu will seize every opportunity to release a protective shield. Once Imu successfully releases the protective shield, it is considered a mission failure. What Black King has to do is to interrupt Imu as much as possible with his attacks and not give him the chance to open the shield.

Taganura plays the role of the one-hit kill, attacking Gamu with a reduced-power high-temperature ray. As long as Black King manages to hit Gamu before he can activate his shield, it counts as a success.

PS................

Chapter Thirteen can certainly be applied next time!

I gently turned the button on top of the monster capsule. According to Knuckle the courier, turning it counterclockwise half a turn would switch to modulation mode. In this state, time would not be counted, but Black King would automatically determine whether it was in actual combat or training. If Black King determined that it was in actual combat, it would start consuming the usage time directly.

The deliveryman repeatedly emphasized that Black King is very smart, so there will be no situation where he wastes usage attempts while clearly training, nor will there be any situation where the buyer secretly exploits bugs and uses actual combat as special training.

As it turned out, Nacker's confidence was not unfounded. I dreamt that I pressed the button on top of the capsule and threw it out. The capsule burst into a dazzling light in mid-air. When the light dissipated, King Black's tall figure appeared in the cave.

As soon as he appeared, King Black turned his gaze to my dream and waved to it with great spirituality, his gesture remarkably similar to that of the female lead at the beginning of some videos.

I didn't even need the monster translator; I explained the training rules to King Black directly in Earth language. King Black put his little hands in front of him and nodded obediently, understanding what I was trying to say without any difficulty. Clearly, his brain also had a built-in translator-like device so that buyers from all over the universe could use it conveniently.

Seeing that the communication was effective, I immediately took out the Sapphire Cone and transformed into Gaia. The originally very spacious cave space suddenly became cramped with three giant objects over fifty meters tall, just like three people standing in a fifty-square-meter living room.

I dreamt I was about to release the protective shield when King Black rushed forward to stop me, but it was too late. The first special training session ended in failure.

King Black scratched his head with his big yellow paws, and after a serious reflection, gestured for the second round to begin.

This time, King Black was prepared. Just as I was about to raise my hand, he pounced and grabbed both of my hands. I took the opportunity to test King Black's strength.

Those large, jet-black hands were like shackles made of black gold, clamping down on my dream's hands so tightly that he couldn't break free.

Based on this one contest alone, I can tell that Black King's power is at least twice that of me, which is equivalent to the power of V2 Gaia.

"As expected of a monster with five-star reviews for 3000 yuan." I immediately felt that the money was well spent.

Not only that, King Black even knew how to use his strength advantage to restrain Memoir while trying to bend his body toward Taganura, creating an opportunity for Taganura to shoot.

This performance really impressed me. Black King even knows how to assist his teammates in dealing damage, which is truly remarkable.

The difference between a five-star monster and a low-star monster is that a five-star monster can be treated like a human being, and it might even be more reliable than a human. You issue plans and orders, and it will do everything it can to make your plans come true. A low-star monster, on the other hand, is merely a wild beast that shares a common enemy with you, and you can't even guarantee that it won't take the opportunity to cut you down as well.

However, Imu wouldn't just give up so easily. A flash of white light appeared on his body as he used his full-body light-emitting ability, instantly releasing a large amount of photon energy to cover his entire body. Sparks immediately flew from Black King's hands, and in pain, he released his grip on Imu. The latter immediately took a step back, dodging Taganura's shot.

In actual combat, opponents, especially those requiring Black King to participate, are unlikely to be helpless simply because their hands are locked. It is expected that they will have escape skills. At the very least, they can use fire breath or light bullets to force Black King to retreat.

I casually opened the protective shield, declaring that the second round of special training had ended in failure for King Black.

Following the third round of special training, Black King seemed to have learned from its previous experience. It immediately used its strong hands to restrain Imu. Just as Imu was about to use the same trick to escape, Black King suddenly twisted its body, and its huge tail swept hard across Imu's leg. The latter immediately lost its balance and was swept to the ground. Taking advantage of Imu's fall, Black King suddenly leaped up. Although its head hit the top of the cave, it still managed to let Imu see its battle plan.

Use force to restrain the opponent, then sweep the tail to make the opponent lose balance and fall to the ground, followed by a crushing blow, using the hard and heavy body to damage the enemy while making it difficult for them to break free.

Although King Black didn't actually fall on my dream, I could easily imagine how painful it would be to be jumped up and crushed by that thing.

Immediately afterwards, King Black lifted me up by my legs, while his tail wrapped around my arms, locking me in place. Taganura's miniature high-heat ray accurately hit my back. I felt a heat on my back and immediately knew that I had lost this time.

King Black gently put my dream down, then straightened it, and then obediently squatted beside him, waiting for further instructions.

"Luckily, all the aliens ran away, otherwise if I had been attacked by King Black and Knuckle two against one, I probably would have ended up like Guiman."

It wasn't until now that I truly understood how much pressure Ultraman faced back then. Black King was stronger than a normal Ultraman, and he also knew combat techniques and how to support his teammates. The key was that after special training, he was immune to beams and Ultra Bracelets. How the hell could we fight him?

If it hadn't been special training, but a real one-on-two battle, I would have been knocked back into my human form by Taganura's attack, or at the very least, severely injured.

"It seems that it's not just Black King who's getting special training; I'm getting special training too." I Meng sighed. Although he had a tough time in that last wave, he had also realized how to guard against powerful monsters with tails like Black King.

“King Black, you will now spar with me one-on-one for a while and demonstrate your combat skills to me as much as possible.”

Upon hearing this, King Black nodded obediently, retreated to create space, and then launched a series of attacks on my dream.

Although I was mentally prepared, I still felt a little disoriented when King Black actually punched me twice.

If other monsters are hunting dogs, then Black King is a military dog. Its various moves are all professionally trained. It fights like a military boxing style. After a few rounds, it completely overwhelmed me. At the same time, I was once again glad that this thing was a teammate and not an enemy. Otherwise, I could only hope that a flash of light would appear in the sky and my older brother Tiga and second brother Dyna would come to the rescue.

The two sparred for a long time, until I was completely exhausted and collapsed. Although I didn't win against Black King in the end, I felt that I had gained a lot.

What did that sentence say?

This will definitely be useful next time!

Chapter Fourteen: I'll Form the Head!

The day after I finished my special training, the Defense Force headquarters received a report that a new monster had been sighted on the Mongolian plains.

When I heard the name "Mongolian Plain," a figure of "righteousness and integrity" immediately appeared in my mind.

Soon, the footage captured on site was transmitted back to the headquarters' large screen and played back, confirming my dream's guess.

“Golza,” I murmured in my dream.

Everyone's attention was focused on the monster on the screen, so they didn't notice my dream's mutterings.

The monster on the screen briefly crawled out from underground, seemingly observing the world with a conscious effort, before digging back underground.

The defense forces have completely lost track of the monster. It moves deep underground, and with current methods, there is no way to track it. Therefore, defense force branches around the world are on high alert, fearing that the monster might suddenly appear in their jurisdiction.

But I can roughly guess that Golza will eventually appear in Japan, and the location should be in the northeastern part of Japan.

As for the reasons, the first is that most of the monsters in the entire Ultraman series appear in Japan. Since I have come to the world of Ultraman, Japan is undoubtedly the place with the most disasters.

The reason for the speculation is that it is located in northeastern Japan, because that is the location of "Tiga Land" in the Ultraman Ultra TV series.

But I'm not sure if the "Land of Tiga" still exists in this world, because in the original work, the Land of Tiga was where Tiga and two other ancient giants slept. But did the ancient giants in this world really leave their bodies on Earth?

I have my doubts about this. If the body really was left behind, then in such a critical situation, the body of the Giant of Light should have already summoned a suitable human host to inherit its power.

This is my dream's trust in the ancient giants. If they, especially Tiga's body, were still alive, they would never have stood by and watched the Earth fall into crisis for so long without doing anything.

My dream's guess was indeed correct. The ancient giants did leave behind their bodies 30 million years ago. However, the Earth's many disasters did not begin in recent years. Over the past 30 million years, it has been shrouded in various enormous crises more than once.

In every major crisis, an ancient giant summons a suitable human host to inherit his power and then steps forward to resolve the crisis.

However, due to the frequency of the crises, the bodies of the ancient giants were completely exhausted over the long period of thirty million years.

The reason why Gaia and Agul were able to be born on Earth is because some of the light dissipated from the ancient giants merged into the Earth, allowing the Earth to use the light of the earth and the light of the ocean as materials to create Gaia and Agul by imitating the form of the giants of light.

The electric door to the operations hall suddenly opened, and Horii, wearing a researcher's white lab coat, walked in.

Holding a sample sent from the Mongolian plains, he said to everyone, "We just analyzed the sample sent from the Mongolian branch. According to the on-site investigation, these samples were taken from that monster. We conducted carbon-14 dating on them and found that the earliest of these samples can be traced back to 30 million years ago."

"Thirty million years?!" Everyone's eyes widened when they heard this number.

"Yes, it's an incredible number, isn't it?" Horii himself looked at the sample in his hand with some emotion: "This thing existed in the Oligocene epoch of the Paleogene period 30 million years ago, while the history of humankind that we can trace back to today is only a million years. Compared with the history of the Earth, the history of humankind is really too short and insignificant."

"Put the history lesson aside for now, are you saying this monster has lived for thirty million years?" the mountain team member couldn't help but ask.

"Based on the current clues, that's the case."

"That's impossible. How could any creature live for 30 million years?" Yamanaka didn't believe it at all. He waved his hand and laughed, "Our defense team must believe in science. The biological knowledge we have learned tells us that Earth creatures do not have this ability. It must have accidentally brought up some soil and gravel from 30 million years ago when it came out of the ground."

"Team member Yamanaka, do you mean your expertise is superior to that of researcher Horii?" Mizoroki unusually stood up to speak in Horii's defense.

Goroki spoke up not out of any personal considerations, but because he firmly believed that one should trust professionals in areas one doesn't understand. As a genius in the field of combat, he understood very well the vast difference between ordinary people and geniuses.

Even though Tango and Otomo are two guys who aren't exactly mentally sound, their expertise in their respective fields is actually very profound. You can question their decisions, but you can't question their professional abilities.

Horii was a professional recognized by Mizoroki, so although he didn't understand things like dating, he firmly trusted Horii.

"All I know is that I believe in science," Yamanaka insisted, maintaining his opinion.

"Believe in science? Are the things we've encountered so far scientific?" I couldn't help but stand up. "The Sphia life form, the Root Destruction summoner, and the cosmic monster we dealt with not long ago—which of them conforms to science? We are a defense force against supernatural forces, yet you don't believe in their existence?"