sbdcsierra Chapter 399 : The Sniper and His Mutant Best Friend!
Chapter 399 : The Sniper and His Mutant Best Friend!
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
It was exactly 8 p.m.
Major video platforms updated on time, and the fifteenth episode of "Ultraman Cosmos" officially premiered!
This episode is a combination of episodes 31 and 33 from the original version.
I skipped episode 32 of "The Nightmare Experiment".
The plot of this episode is roughly about how humans have developed a new type of anesthetic that is five times more potent than the original, making it more effective at controlling monsters.
Therefore, the higher-ups wanted to find monsters on the Seiya Islands to conduct experiments.
However, Musashi and the others were unwilling to seek out these law-abiding monsters.
Just then, a crazed Gormley approached the residential area.
Next, there are some points that have been criticized: when faced with a berserk monster, Musashi still has an overabundance of compassion and is unwilling to use an anesthetic that might have side effects that could harm the monster.
Although it was later discovered in the story that the anesthetic had severe side effects, and the substances that evaporated into the air would cause the monster to go berserk.
But this seems more like a forced explanation of "shooting first and then drawing the target".
After all, Musashi only acted on instinct to disobey orders, without any solid evidence; it was purely the screenwriter exercising the power of fate.
The character of Musashi has actually regressed; his disobedient and willful behavior is not as good as it was at the beginning...
Although episodes 31 and 33 also have their own flaws, combining the two episodes into one can mitigate those logical loopholes and explanations of the characters' motivations.
……
Finally, amidst everyone's expectant gaze.
The screen lights up.
The first thing that catches the eye is a huge monster that looks like an ancient dinosaur.
It trudged along the barren land in the mountains, its huge body covered with obvious wounds, especially its right eye and horn, which were stained with blood.
With each step it took, it emitted a low, painful groan.
"It's the rock monster, Nildland!"
Inside the command center of the elite youth team, the monster's data was quickly retrieved.
"It was originally a very docile monster, but it was seriously injured a few days ago after accidentally triggering a high-voltage electromagnetic shield set up by the defense forces."
Captain Qingguang looked at the data on the screen, his tone tinged with pity, "Based on its route, it should be trying to return to its birthplace—Dragon Rock Mountain—to heal its wounds."
Captain Qingguang's expression turned grave. He immediately issued the order: "If we don't protect it soon, its strength will only grow weaker. Fengchui, Shuiye, move out immediately to capture it. Use the laser net to stop it from running away, then use a transport plane to safely send it back to Longyan Mountain!"
"clear!"
Everything in the picture.
Vice Captains Kaze and Mizuha have already arrived at the scene in their fighter jets.
Two fighter jets circled in the air, precisely firing azure laser nets that gently enveloped the battered Neildland.
"Okay, Fengchui, it's your turn now," Mizuha said into the communicator.
"Leave it to me." Feng Chui skillfully maneuvered the fighter jet, preparing to launch the tractor beam.
[That monster is so pitiful; it's so badly injured and still has to struggle to get home.]
The elite team was quite gentle; they escorted it back to its hometown.
[This smooth start is definitely not normal!]
Indeed, especially when using a traction net with zero wins!
Sure enough, the heartwarming atmosphere in the comments section didn't even last two seconds.
"Bang--!"
A deafening gunshot suddenly ripped through the sky.
A blinding, high-energy laser shot out from a distant mountaintop, striking Neildland's already injured leg with precision and ruthlessness.
"roar--!"
Neildland let out a piercing scream, and its massive body crashed to the ground. Already on the verge of death, its injuries worsened instantly, and it completely lost its ability to move.
"This is outrageous! Who on earth did this?!"
Vice-Captain Mizuha abruptly turned his head to look in the direction from which the laser had come.
The camera zooms in, and on a distant cliff stands a man in a black trench coat with a cold look in his eyes.
He was holding a specially made large-caliber heavy sniper rifle in his hand—no, it was more like a cannon—and wisps of smoke were rising from the muzzle.
As Feng Chui watched the man's figure, his face instantly darkened, and he gritted his teeth as he spat out a name: "No mistake... it's him."
【?? ?? Headhunter!】
[And there's that stinky sniper!]
[Monster: It's not me, why did you squeeze me out?!]
The scene shifts back to the youth elite team's base.
Tu Jing is doing his best to prepare a special medicine to heal Nirdrand's injuries.
Inside the command center, however, the atmosphere was extremely oppressive.
"Fengchu, who is that guy who injured Neildland?" Musashi clenched his fists angrily.
Kaze took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "He is a cadre of the defense force, Saijo's right-hand man—Liu Junye (original work: Kawanashi Junye)."
"That right-hand man of Saijo? No wonder he's so aggressive!"
Rena frowned.
Vice Captain Mizuha sighed and added, "Although the Defense Force also longs for peace, they always tend to use force to solve problems. Liu Chun is an extremist among them."
"Whoever he is!"
Musashi shouted, "No matter what his reason was, shooting a dying monster is absolutely unforgivable!"
Just then, the automatic door to the command room opened with a "whoosh".
Accompanied by a cold voice, Liu Chunye, the man who had just fired a shot on the cliff, swaggered into the command room of the elite youth team.
"I didn't intend for you to find me pleasing to the eye."
Liu Chun also sneered, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.
Captain Haruka stood up, her sharp gaze fixed on him: "I am Haruka, captain of Team EYES. What brings you here?"
Liu Chun walked up to the main screen without any hesitation, crossed her arms, and said, "The EYES team is too naive. You keep talking about protecting monsters, but do you know how much harm monsters can cause to humans and cities? This isn't something you can just dismiss with a 'I don't know'."
As he spoke, scenes of monsters destroying the city appeared on the screen.
He turned his head, his eyes becoming incredibly sharp: "Once a monster is discovered, it should be completely eliminated immediately! Only in this way can the harm be minimized! When will you finally understand this?"
Faced with the aggressive Liu Chun,
"I'm telling you clearly."
Captain Haruka remained unyielding: "The EYES team's spirit of protecting monsters will never change. We will all uphold this belief with our lives."
Liu Chun snorted coldly and turned his gaze to Mizuha and Fubuki: "Mizuha, Fubuki. What's the fun in transferring from the Defense Force to this indecisive organization?"
"Indecisive?" Mizuha retorted without hesitation. "I didn't see that coming from you. There's a lot more to it than you can imagine."
"What I saw is the truth."
Liu Chun's tone was icy as well, "You are nothing but a weak collective that talks the talk but walks the walk. Peace cannot be achieved through gentleness alone; only strength! Only great strength can bring peace!"
"You're wrong!" Musashi couldn't help but retort loudly, "Peace cannot be achieved through force alone! Only gentleness connects us to peace! Monsters, like humans, are life forms living on Earth. If we don't try to understand them and simply use force to kill them, what's the difference between that and murder?!"
Liu Chun also turned his head sharply, staring intently at Musashi, a complex emotion of pain and violence flashing in his eyes: "Don't just talk the talk! Have you ever been hurt? When you were deeply hurt, you'll know what reality is!"
After saying that, he turned and left without any hesitation.
The atmosphere is tense!
[If this were a realistic drama, maybe this kid is right, but this is tokusatsu, especially a Gauss series with a theme of compassion.]
But once the monster goes berserk, it's the ordinary people who die.
[This is somewhat similar to Brigadier General Chung's character design.]
He definitely has a story.
After Liu Chun also left, Vice Captain Shuiye slowly spoke, revealing the extreme truth about Liu Chun.
Three years ago, Liu Chun also lost his sister forever due to a monster disaster. I heard that his sister sacrificed herself to save her friends.
Mizuha's voice carried a hint of regret: "From then on, his personality changed drastically. Killing the monsters he hated became his strongest belief. He became a complete monster sniper."
"So that's how it is..."
Musashi was stunned. His anger turned into a helpless sigh.
[I knew it! It's that kind of backstory again!]
Don't advise others to be kind if you haven't experienced their suffering. My sister was killed by a monster; who wouldn't go crazy in that situation?
[Liu Chun has also become a human supremacist.]
[It hurts, it hurts so much!]
To alleviate Musashi's low spirits and to provide some respite from the tense situation, the scene shifts to another storyline.
On a bustling city street, Musashi was carrying a strangely shaped, square-headed robot on his way back to base.
This is Clementine, the robot who accompanied Musashi throughout his childhood.
He was asking Clementon questions about Liu Chunye, hoping to get an answer from this "robot childhood friend".
Is there really no optimal solution to the conflict between humans and monsters?
However, Crebagon has difficulty understanding human emotions.
Even finding a local optimum is difficult...
As it pondered, blue smoke began to rise from its head.
Seeing this, Musashi was so frightened that he quickly took it to a "toy hospital" for a complete overhaul.
"Excellent, Crebagon! After the repairs, you're completely refreshed!"
Looking at the robot that had regained its vitality in his arms, Musashi finally showed a long-lost smile.
Crebagon's electronic eyes flashed and emitted a few cheerful mechanical sounds.
"Seriously, having a robot around makes it feel like we're really friends," Rena's teasing voice came through the communicator.
"To me, it's been my best friend since I was a child!" Musashi retorted earnestly.
"Is it because you never grow up and spend all your time dealing with these kinds of mechanical toys that you have no luck with women and can't get a girlfriend?" Rena added mercilessly.
"How could you do this! That's so unfair!" Musashi protested, his face flushed.
AI can be a lover too!
Are you a rogue boss too?
[Musashi: I don't need a girlfriend, I have Cosmos and Bagon, that's enough!]
Indeed, Musashi has a whole harem of monsters!
Just as the two were arguing, the base's alarms went off again.
"Captain! A high concentration of Chaos virus has been detected over Tokyo!" Rena's smile vanished instantly, and her fingers flew across the keyboard.
"Immediately confirm the trajectory of the Chaos virus!" Captain Haruka shouted.
On the main screen, a red streak is cutting across the sky at an astonishing speed.
"This is…" Rena exclaimed in horror, her eyes wide, "The target of the Chaos Virus is… Team Member Musashi!"
At that moment, Musashi was carrying Crebagon into the car.
"Musashi! Get out of there! The Chaos virus is targeting you!"
Reina's anxious cries came through the communicator.
Musashi suddenly looked up and saw a Chaos Light Virus emitting an eerie, colorful light, hurtling straight down on him like a falling meteor!
The speed was too fast; Musashi had no time to react at all.
At the critical moment.
"Beep beep beep—!"
Suddenly, the Crebagon in Musashi's arms emitted a sharp alarm.
This robot, which was originally just an ordinary toy, suddenly unleashed astonishing power.
It suddenly broke free from Musashi's embrace and, with all its might, slammed into Musashi's chest.
Musashi was thrown backward by the sudden force.
At the same instant, the Chaoslight Virus struck, hitting Crebagon who was standing still!
"boom--!!!"
The violent explosion stirred up a gust of wind in the square.
Musashi crashed heavily to the ground, his head struck the ground, and he went black, losing consciousness completely.
In the last second before he lost consciousness, he only saw the phantom of Crebagon being swallowed by colorful light.
[Are we going straight for the enemy's capital?]
[Toy robot, protect your owner!]
[This Chaos virus has gotten smarter; unable to defeat Gauss, it's resorting to assassinating humanoids!]
[This is incredibly sinister! Chaos is a real threat.]
Everything in the picture.
When Musashi opened his eyes again, he found himself lying in a hospital bed at the SRC Medical Center.
"You're awake, Musashi."
Standing beside the bed was a kind-faced middle-aged doctor in a white coat, none other than Dr. Kawatani, who had appeared earlier and was specifically in charge of the elite team's medical work. (Original work: Shinjo makes a cameo appearance)
"Dr. Kawatani... what's wrong with me?" Musashi struggled to sit up, rubbing his throbbing head.
Dr. Kawatani looked at the medical report in his hand, a strange smile appearing on his face: "To determine if you were infected with the Chaos virus, we conducted a variety of extremely detailed examinations on you. The results…"
Musashi nervously swallowed. "What happened?"
"The results clearly show that not only are you not infected by the Chaos virus, but your body is as healthy as a mammoth!" Dr. Kawatani smiled and patted Musashi on the shoulder.
"A mammoth?" Musashi was both amused and exasperated.
At that moment, the doctor, arms crossed, walked over and said, "Don't worry. But why did the Chaos virus suddenly target you?"
The doctor stroked his chin thoughtfully: "If it's Vice-Captain Mizuha, maybe the Chaos Virus has become infatuated with her beauty. Who knows if it's targeting you?"
Musashi's heart skipped a beat.
He knew perfectly well that the Chaos Virus attacked him because it had already discovered that he was Ultraman Cosmos's human form!
But he absolutely could not reveal this secret.
Musashi quickly changed the subject, anxiously asking, "Excuse me... where's my Clementine? Where is Clementine?!"
"Crebagon?"
Dr. Kawatani paused for a moment, then pointed to a table in the corner of the ward. "When we brought you here, we also brought that charred robot with us. We just left it there."
Musashi immediately threw off the covers and rushed over.
However, the table was empty except for a small patch of black ash.
"Huh... what's going on?"
Dr. Kawatani was also bewildered. "I remember it was definitely placed here."
Musashi's heart sank to the bottom.
"Boom—!!!"
Just then, the entire medical center began to shake violently. Deafening explosions and terrified screams came from outside the windows.
Musashi suddenly lunged to the window and looked outside.
In the distance, in the city center, a gigantic robot monster, nearly fifty meters tall and made entirely of steel and gears, was wreaking havoc on the streets.
Its appearance is exactly the same as Musashi's little toy Crebagon!
However, its eyes flashed with the characteristic ferocious red light of the Chaos virus.
Mutant Chaoskerebagon!
[Bagon has mutated!!!]
[It's grown huge! This is troublesome!]
The Chaos virus possessed a toy and created a mechanical monster!
[No? Chaos is also a concept god? Toys can be infected?!]
A cyber virus is still a virus!
In the scene, the gigantic Chaoscrebagon exhibits extremely bizarre behavior.
Instead of firing a destructive ray, it extended its enormous mechanical arm, grabbed a parked car from the roadside, and stuffed it into its massive, shredder-like mouth like a snack.
It's a one-to-one replica of Seven's scene.
With a piercing metallic creak, cars were devoured by it.
"What is it doing? Eating cars?"
The group watched this scene in shock.
"Chaosbagon needs a massive amount of energy to maintain its body, which has grown drastically under the influence of the Chaos Virus!"
A voice came through the communicator explaining, "It's replenishing its energy by consuming inorganic matter!"
Captain Qingguang's voice rang out immediately afterward: "Orange alert level! Team EYES, deploy immediately!"
"Understood!" Feng Chui immediately turned and rushed towards the hangar.
Musashi followed without hesitation, but the light in his eyes trembled violently.
That was his best friend!
That was Clementine, who had been with him since childhood!
On the battlefield, Chaosbagon continued its rampage, devouring cars and causing surrounding buildings to collapse.
Musashi ran to an empty overpass, looked at Bagong in the distance, and suddenly pulled out the Sun and Moon Radiance from his pocket.
"Gauss! Please!"
Just as Musashi was about to take out his transformation device, a military jeep suddenly sped up from behind.
"squeak--!"
The jeep made a beautiful drift and stopped not far from Bagon.
The car door opened, and Liu Chun, wearing a black trench coat, stepped out.
He carried his iconic heavy-duty, large-caliber sniper rifle, his eyes coldly fixed on the massive steel monster in front of him.
"The indecisive defense force is simply laughable."
Liu Chun sneered and skillfully pulled the bolt, pushing a specially made armor-piercing explosive round that emitted a ghostly blue light into the chamber.
He picked up his sniper rifle and, through the scope, firmly placed the crosshairs on the core of Chaosbagon that was flashing red light.
"Since you've become a monster, then die!"
Liu Chunye's finger slowly rested on the trigger.