The suddenly appeared, fully-armed team was none other than the defense team from the TV series Ultraman Nexus—the Night Raiders!
Their mission was to eliminate Space Beasts that appeared and to maintain human safety.
However, it seemed the Night Raiders harbored a significant amount of hostility towards Chen Yu.
After all, Chen Yu was holding a gun, and the Space Beast had been eliminated, making it hard not to suspect him.
Chen Yu had no interest in dealing with the Night Raiders because this team dared to treat Ultraman as an enemy.
But in the current situation, Chen Yu planned to calm these people down before making his escape.
Therefore, Chen Yu temporarily placed his firearm on the ground and planned to sneak away while they were distracted.
The Night Raiders' deputy leader, Saijou Nagi (Nagi with the third tone, recently translated as Wind), approached Chen Yu. After fiddling with the device on her wrist, she couldn't pull up any data on the young man before her.
"Who are you?" Saijou Nagi became more vigilant, "Could it be, you're also transformed from a Space Beast!"
Saying this, Saijou Nagi aimed her gun at Chen Yu's head, ready to fire at any moment.
"Look, if I were one of those monsters, why would I bother eliminating it?"
Chen Yu couldn't comprehend Saijou Nagi's reasoning and retorted.
Saijou Nagi snorted coldly, "Who knows if you're using some kind of ruse to trick us, you cunning Space Beasts!"
With that, Saijou Nagi's finger pressed slightly further down on the trigger. A little more force, and bullets would fly towards Chen Yu.
"Is she for real?"
Realizing the gravity of the situation, Chen Yu dropped the act, his gaze sharpening as the Serpent Heart Sword appeared in his hand from his storage space.
Then, a beam of light flashed, and Saijou Nagi also pulled the trigger.
However, after pulling the trigger, Saijou Nagi discovered that the firearm in her hand had been split into two...
Seizing the opportunity, Chen Yu picked up the firearm from the ground and leapt into the night sky, making a quick escape.
The other Night Raiders members, stunned by the scene, held their guns but didn't fire.
Since the captain and Sou Hikoji hadn't given the order to attack, they dared not act rashly.
"What are you doing?" Saijou Nagi turned angrily to her teammates, "Why didn't you attack him? He's a Space Beast!"
"Deputy leader..." Team member Ishikure Kouyan spoke up, "The Space Beast was apparently eliminated by him, so he shouldn't be a Space Beast."
"I've told you, Space Beasts are cunning; they disguise as humans and even use tactics!"
Saijou Nagi remained furious, addressing Ishikure Kouyan.
"Deputy leader, the captain hasn't issued an attack order," team member Hiragi Shiori said somewhat aggrieved, glancing at Captain Wakura.
Captain Wakura timely nodded, "Nagi, you need to calm down. I don't think this person's actions resemble those of a Space Beast; rather, he seems like what's known as a psychic."
"A psychic? You mean he conjured a sword out of thin air and can fly?" Hiragi Shiori pondered and asked.
"Correct." Captain Wakura nodded, "We've already scanned some data from him, and headquarters should be analyzing it now."
"Alright, let's regroup." Just then, a young voice came through their communicators, "Leave the scene to the logistics team."
"What about the victims?" Captain Wakura asked, looking at the gas station attendant and the truck driver, who were both in shock.
"MP will handle them," the young voice replied.
MP refers to a team within the TLT organization responsible for erasing the memories of civilians who witnessed Space Beasts, to prevent these people from generating fear again, thereby feeding the Space Beasts and enhancing their strength.
As the team was about to leave, Saijou Nagi caught a glimpse of a figure in the distance.
The figure, a man in a leather jacket, just stood there silently observing the scene. However, Saijou Nagi blinked, and the figure disappeared.
This made Saijou Nagi wonder if she had seen it wrong.
...
Chen Yu flew into the night sky, summoned his spaceship, and entered it.
Having been fired at by Saijou Nagi of the Night Raiders, Chen Yu noted this grudge.
In the original storyline, Saijou Nagi had a history of firing at allies, and Ultraman Nexus did indeed suffer several times.
However, Chen Yu knew that Saijou Nagi's hostility towards "human-shaped Space Beasts" had its reasons.
As a child, she witnessed a human-shaped Space Beast kill her parents, leaving a seed of hatred in her heart.
The human-shaped Space Beast Saijou Nagi saw as a child was, naturally, Dark Zagi.
Dark Zagi, for his plans, began capturing Nexus' hosts from a young age, waiting for hatred to drive the hosts into darkness.
Entering the spaceship, Chen Yu activated its cloaking mode and returned to his room to rest.
According to this world's time, it was still midnight.
He needed to adjust to the time difference, so he definitely needed some sleep now.
Before going to sleep, Chen Yu checked the task information and found that the mission to eliminate 20 Space Beasts was now at 1/20.
Meaning, the Space Beast he had just eliminated with the firearm was counted.
"If it's going to be this easy, then I thought I'd be at this for a long time."
But now, it seemed, eliminating any Space Beast would count towards the mission completion.
The Space Beast he just faced certainly wasn't one of the formidable ones, even in terms of size.
If transformed into an Ultraman, it would be a matter of smashing it with a single punch.
"Small Space Beasts like that, just send a dozen my way; I'll complete the mission even faster."
While contemplating, Chen Yu checked another task.
[Increase Ultraman's exposure to 50%, currently at 0.01%]
This mission seemed quite difficult to Chen Yu.
Because this world has the MP team specifically to erase memories, anyone who sees Space Beasts and Ultraman would have their memories wiped.
Therefore, increasing exposure was an uphill battle.
As for the 0.01% completion, Chen Yu guessed it included those in this world who knew of Ultraman's existence.
Naturally, these individuals were the high-ranking members of the TLT organization.