Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

Ski resort, this side of Xialong.

The fighter planes might not be able to fly, and even if they could, they wouldn’t be able to accommodate them.

Fortunately, although the area is still cold, it has returned to its natural state.

Although the planet may seem capricious to people at times, all of her actions ultimately have a traceable pattern.

'Although I didn't feel the slightest bit of discomfort from the cold...I really want to stay here for a few hours to enjoy the scenery.'

But what next?

Xia Long stretched out his hand, and the last bit of snow falling from the sky landed on his hand. The black clouds had dissipated, and although the sky was not yet a clear, cloudless day, one could see that the clouds had been dyed with light.

Beidou and Nan Xizi went to transform and fight another super beast, and they might not be back for a while. It is impossible for the remaining team members not to doubt Beidou's identity, but it is really worrying to make Beidou and others suspected so early.

"But there's no way to clean up their mess. If they happened to have the captain in their bodies, it would be fine. At worst, they could say that he was saved by Ace. But they probably didn't expect me to show up, so they won't be able to come for a while. I can only use hypnosis to buy time."

At this moment, Xia Long suddenly felt a subtle pulse bursting out in his consciousness.

Ordinary monsters cannot achieve this level of ultra-long-distance communication with Xia Long, but the resentful Ultra Beast Destroyer, which is a big iron block, does not have this limitation. The only problem is that it is necessary to prevent this communication from being eavesdropped by certain people.

'What happened?'

'Ace is dead.'

'.......................Go on.'

"Ace was turned into a bronze sculpture by a Hippolyte. I killed a Yabo man nearby and found Nan Xizi's body lying 700 meters away from Ace. What should I do?"

"...............Nan Xizi, outside Ace?"

"Yes, because of this problem, I have not yet protected your daughter. What should I do? I let her sleep for a while when she was about to wake up."

Xia Long pressed the joint of his index finger against his forehead.

Ace was dead. No, Hippolyte's method could indeed "eliminate" Ace, but that was not death. As long as he had enough energy, Ace could still be resurrected. It was not accurate to say that he was dead. That kind of death did not even require him to return to the Kingdom of Light. At best, he was just short of mana.

But why did Ace want to separate Nan Xizi?

'Has Beidou been spotted at the scene?'

'No, I am quite sure of that, or he would have been able to hide himself from me.'

Beidou is not here, which means it is Beidou's wish to let Nan Xizi leave Ace's body?

Why, in the original work, didn’t the Ultra Brothers come to rescue at this time? Then they shouldn’t have abandoned Minami Yuko.

No, maybe not abandoned, but even so, why not send out the Ultra Signature? That is something that travels faster than the speed of light like Ansible Communications, which is completely against common sense. It is a communication that can only be blocked by directly destroying it at the moment it stagnates. If you are sure that you have the support of your brothers, letting Nan Xizi leave her body seems like an unnecessary action.

Except… he couldn’t.

The signature could not be sent out, so when he thought he was going to die, what he thought of was to let one person live first.

Otherwise, why let Nan Xizi leave the body? Because if there are no brothers to save him, only the other Nan Xizi who is Ace's human body can save him.

But why, why can't Ace send out a signature? Although the Ultra Signature was destroyed by the Tyrant, the Tyrant is the one who defeated the Ultra Brothers continuously in a round-robin battle, and ordinary Ultra Beasts are no match for him.

The signature that was not broken in the original Ace TV work is trapped here. What is trapping it?

Moreover, the enemy deliberately let... Yes, the Hippolytes must have joined forces with the Yabo people to put Ace in an ambiguous situation between life and death.

Why didn't he just kill him directly, or did he make him into a sculpture on purpose to lure me into saving him?

There are too many possibilities, but one thing is clear.

Xia Long tilted his head and looked into the distance with his superhuman vision. In the tiny part of his pupil, he could see the image of two team members running towards the fighter plane where the captain was. It was as clear as if he was looking through a telescope.

"I can't save you, Beidou."

Xia Long lowered the fingers that were resting his forehead against and murmured;

"But I'm going to save you, Ace."

......

Within the base.

"What happened? Beidou and Nan died?"

"That's not the case. Maybe he was rescued."

"Rescued, by whom?"

"Ace."

"Do not make jokes."

Shanzhong walked for a while with his hands folded across his chest, then came back.

"Why did you only rescue these two?"

Konno looked at him in silence.

"Yamanaka, I was just joking. I can't say that Ace doesn't like the captain because he's old, right?"

"Idiot, the captain is only in his thirties!"

"Then I don't know either!"

"Don't interrupt me. The captain needs to rest. The higher-ups are planning to send us a temporary captain, but they don't have enough time, so I'll be in charge of the operation for now."

28-year-old Manatsu Ryu interrupted this in a heavy voice from her seat.

Now the team is missing three teammates at once. Although Tucker has not received an order prohibiting action, his position is actually very awkward.

"So what should we do now? We can't just go out and attack. That monster has already defeated Ace. If we act on our own, it will only lead to more tragedies like what happened in the industrial zone!"

Yamanaka came over and slammed his hands on the table. The sound was so loud that it spread throughout the operations room. Manatsu Ryu just raised his eyes, and his glowing black pupils stared coldly at Yamanaka.

"I say, calm down, okay?"

Shanzhong twisted his mouth awkwardly, as if his braces were uncomfortable. He put his hands back and crossed his arms across his chest, exuding a dejected temperament.

"It's not over yet. Didn't we already go through this kind of thing during the Seven era? What our predecessors were able to do, there's no reason why our descendants can't do it."

"You mean to help Ace regain his energy...?"

Yoshimura Kozo, who had just returned, regained his spirits and slowly spoke, hesitatingly asking;

"Team member Kaji Yoichi."

Following Xia Long's words, team member Kaji Yoichi suddenly walked in like an actor who had just been announced to go on stage. Although he had dark circles under his eyes, he still had a nonchalant smile on his face.

"Please allow me to introduce to you the improved 'Sunspot' system, which only requires three people to use."

As the voice came out, four men in white coats came in carrying a huge device together. It can be seen that they were working very hard. Although the way they carried the device looked very worrying, they still arrived safely and put it down.

"I'm very sorry, but researchers always neglect to exercise..."

The device is very large, probably twice as big as an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher. As for its appearance, it looks like the electromagnetic tower in Red Alert, with a spiral launching device on its head, like a white glass tube, a silver object like a gem on the top, and a base at the bottom, as if there are many electromagnetic organizations inside, but of course it is not the Eiffel Tower type.

"This is......"

"The General Staff has prepared an operation to unite a large number of troops to harass the red alien and use this device to replenish Ace's energy in the hope of reviving Ace. Our Tucker team has been ordered to participate."

Manatsu Ryuu rested his chin on one hand and said;

"The name is 'Ace Plan'."