Ultraman Fighting Evolution

DELTA area, DELPHI club, 23:00.

"Give me a glass of the same one as his." Walking through the crowd, Xia Long smiled at the man who was drinking in front of the bar, took off his sunglasses and sat beside him.

The same bar, Xia Long has become a frequent visitor these days.

Except for the bedroom covered by thick curtains, this is one of the few places where he is willing to stay for a long time, even though the music here is a bit noisy.

"Life without a smile must be boring, right?" Xia Long took a sip of the wine glass handed over by the waiter, and glanced at the man next to him.

Not an ordinary person, calluses between fingers, sitting alertly because of his arrival...

"Have a drink together?"

Raising the glass to the man, Xia Long was about to have a good chat, but the man squinted his eyes and looked at him for a while before getting up and leaving.

Shaking the glass awkwardly, Xia Long's eyes moved slightly.

"That person..." JIN passed by the man and muttered to sit in the man's seat.

Seeing JIN, Xia Long helped order a glass of wine and asked, "How is it? Do you have any clues?"

"No, I can't remember who I am at all. I just keep having the same dream," JIN said dully, "I dreamed that I was floating in the water..."

"If you really can't remember, don't force it. After all, finding past memories may not be a good thing." Tasting the bitterness in the wine, Xia Long frowned and put down the wine glass.

Looking at JIN's thoughtful look, Xia Long said, "This world is full of prescriptions for people's inner health and happiness. In order to give people a standardized happiness, the prescriptions are continuously transmitted to people through the air display."

As he said, Xia Long pointed to the numb guests in the bar.

"And people who have no feeling for the happiness displayed on the monitor are like people with a terminal illness, so what can they do even if they know the past? Look at them..."

Looking back and seeing JIN looking at him in surprise, Xia Long smiled and said, "It was K who told me about it. I heard that it was the last communication between a former partner. I think it's right."

"But," JIN was silent for a while and said seriously, "I still want to know my past, at least, I have to know who I am."

"Well," Xia Long paused and said seriously, sensing JIN's inner confusion and desire, "Regarding the building where the explosion occurred that day, there was no sign of damage the next day. It was simply said that there was a gas leak..."

Looking directly at JIN, Xia Long continued, "The target should be the woman you mentioned. In this case, maybe she will know your identity and even the whole story of the incident."

Xia Long had some guesses in his mind that the woman might be hunted down because she knew the secret of artificial intelligence.

"Did she say anything to you?" Xia Long asked.

He didn't know much about what happened in this world and couldn't solve JIN's problem directly.

"What..." Jin rubbed his forehead and took out the red glasses from his arms, "Here, she said I am the savior of this world."

Savior?

Glancing over the glasses, Xia Long smiled bitterly.

This world cannot be saved by eliminating aliens.

Even if the alien invaders are eliminated, even if the artificial intelligence that controls the world is cleared, will the world really be saved?

"Anyway, trust that woman first," Xia Long shook his head and reminded, "If you need it, I will help you."

Jin came back to his senses and put away his glasses in confusion: "But XIA, don't you have a mission?"

"Ah, that can't be rushed." Waving to the waiter to pay the bill, Xia Long said lightly, "What is coming will eventually come."

Regarding the investigation of abnormal energy, Xia Long explained that it was to complete a secret mission of DUES.

"Besides, I have already applied to the higher-ups. Now my main task is to assist you who have lost your memory." After paying the bill, Xia Long looked around intentionally or unintentionally, "Maybe it can just solve my problem."

He faintly sensed that abnormal energy existed in this world. The other party was so powerful that it was impossible for him to deliberately avoid him. There must be some reason.

No matter what the reason was, he would always find clues by following JIN.

...

Late at night, Xia Long frowned in his sleep.

"What's wrong?"

Sitting up, some fragments flashed through Xia Long's mind.

"Huh——" The cool breeze blew in through the window, the curtains fluttered in the wind, and the blue light and shadow reflected and changed.

Silently walking to the window, Xia Long opened the curtains and looked out. Except for the monitors floating everywhere, there was no one.

"Boat?"

Amid the whistling wind, Xia Long looked into the distance with a sense of something.

…

“On the 13th, Saturday, at 3 a.m., a UFO-like QuatreMutilation kidnapped people at night, with 22 victims. Please start the mission with Agent K!”

In the canal area, on the open space along the coast, Xia Long and J rushed to the scene together.

“This is the third kidnapping case,” K explained, “The first one was in the eastern region, and the second one was 13 people, in the inland sea reclamation area, all of which happened late at night without exception…”

“Why are there so many people here at 3 a.m.?” JIN interrupted.

K guessed, “The victims may have been lured.”

“Luring?”

Retracting his gaze from the rippling lake, Xia Long looked at K in confusion.

Nodding, K handed a document to the two and said: "This is a testimony from the taxi driver who picked up the missing woman. When the woman was first pulled to this place, she said..."

After scanning the document, Xia Long handed the document to JIN, closed his eyes, and the sentences recorded in the document emerged in his mind.

"Around 3 a.m. on the 13th, the customer's expression was very panicked..."

"She said: Hurry up, the boat has come..."

As the sentences overlapped, blurred pictures flashed,

The shaking neon lights, the taxi was running fast, the woman was eager to urge, and finally left the taxi in a hurry, without waiting for the driver to change the money, and even ignored the clothes falling, just running blindly...

Xia Long opened his eyes, in the faint light, his sight swept around the open space, and a series of shadows appeared.

The woman ran into the crowd panting, looking at the top of her head as if relieved.

The scene before the 22 people disappeared was frozen in Xia Long's mind.

"Boat?"

Coming back to his senses, Xia Long narrowed his eyes.

It was 3 a.m., which was exactly when he sensed something unusual.

"The people gathered together must have been threatened. Let's start the investigation from here," K said to himself, "I have been investigating this matter alone. If you are with me, don't make trouble..."

"Let's investigate separately, it will be more efficient!" Xia Long interrupted.

"I also want to investigate it by myself." JIN followed.

"Eh?" K was stunned for a while and laughed, "You are really reliable! Ha!"

Xia Long nodded and continued, "Leave that woman to me."

"Huh? There are still 21 people..."

"Leave it to you!"

...

At night, Xia Long came to the apartment of the missing woman.

"Chi Chi--"

Just as he pushed the door open, a noise came. In the slightly narrow space, the TV in the corner of the living space was still on, staying on an empty channel, and the screen was full of snowflakes and white dots.

This kind of TV is a tool for the world to provide information to people while recording people's actions for the government, that is, the artificial intelligence to control.

Ordinary people may not know, but I am afraid that the false information on it alone is disgusting.

Stepping over a puddle of water, Xia Long found an empty mineral water bottle lying on the table, with most of the water flowing out.

Picking up the water bottle and looking at it, Xia Long walked silently to the computer desk.

There was no lock screen, and the screen stayed on a music download list.

"Ding!"

Xia Long randomly clicked on a song to try it out, then turned it off and continued to operate the page to return.

"Your time alone..."

"Your working time..."

A large piece of data popped up and caught Xia Long's eye.

It was unimaginably boring and monotonous.

With a sigh, Xia Long turned around and walked to the French window. In the air was still the annoying virtual screen and the fake smile.

"Lonely people always increase their own mental illness for no reason, so please actively raise some small animals like cats and dogs..."

Retracting his gaze, Xia Long suddenly had an urge to destroy artificial intelligence.

But...

"Bear with it for a while."

Turning off the TV in the living space casually, Xia Long stamped his feet for a while and turned away.

Ahem, just treat it as a practice for Nexus that I might write in the future