[2019]

"The Chief Secretary of the Heavenly Dao, ahhhh——!!!!h

Inside the protozoa base, the silence of the office was broken by a sudden scream.

Negishi snapped open his eyes and screamed as he woke up from his dream.

Nightmare!

Just now, he undoubtedly had a nightmare!

He dreamed of something that had happened in the past...... No, a more disastrous version than his past.

He dreamed that no matter what he had done over the years, no matter how well he had planned it, he would fall short at the last step.

Enraged, he gained the power of Hyper Kabuto, an alien who could travel through time and space.

He was full of pride.

But when he traveled back in time and space, he found that in the past, there were Hyper Kabuto everywhere!

No matter what point in time he travels to, or what point of convergence he travels to at key events, Hyper Kabuto will appear in sync, so that he can't change anything in the end.

Even, even if he randomly chooses a time node to travel through, there will be a Hyper Kabuto waiting for him.

As a result, the more he tries to prove that Hyper Kabuto can't stop him every time, the more Hyper Kabuto he will see in the next time he travels.

from one to two;

from two to three;

From three to an infinite number of them.

In the end, as soon as he broke away from Hyper Clock Up and ended his aerial shuttle, he found that he was surrounded by countless Hyper Kabutos.

The Hyper Kabutos turned their gaze in unison, looked at him, and then slowly raised one hand in the air, pointing to the sky, and chanted in unison.

The words were stacked on top of each other, and they surrounded the root bank three hundred and sixty degrees, as if there was only one voice left between heaven and earth.

The voice was like this:

[Grandma said that I am the way of heaven, and the ...... of everything]

The magnificent chant came to an abrupt end, because Negishi could no longer bear it, and cried out in horror and "escaped" from that dream.

It took a long time for him to slowly settle down.

It was only at this time that he finally noticed the anomaly of the protozoan base at this time.

- It's too quiet.

It shouldn't be so quiet.

Even at night, there are people on duty at the base.

With the commotion he had just made, someone should have knocked on the door a long time ago.

The more I thought about it, the more ugly Negishi's expression became.

Something happened!

As soon as he thought of this, Negishi immediately shouted outward, "Someone! ”

There was silence outside the office, no one responded, only his echo echoed inside.

"Director-General!" Negishi shouted again.

Still no one responded.

The usual on-call Mimic Directorate, this time, did not do it.

Negishi's face became even more ugly.

Then, perhaps thinking of the nightmare just now, Negishi's face quickly became terrified.

"—Heavenly Dao Division! It's you! You must have found this place, right? Come out! I've already guessed it's you! What are you doing with your head and tail? Get out of here! ”

Negishi scolded loudly.

But even so, there was still no sound outside the door.

Even after he stopped, his surroundings seemed to become even more deadly silent, as if he had been abandoned by the world.

At this moment, suddenly, Negishi couldn't help but think of the mimic Kaga Miriku.

He remembered the night before Miriku Kaga died, and had been calling him for help.

At the time, he was just impatient.

Now, he has some understanding of mimicry Kaga Miriku.

But the question is, mimic Kaga Miriku can still call him for help, and who can he call for help?

Svoluz?

Oh, it's a joke, it's always been Svoruz who is in need, and then comes to him, where is his share to find Svoruz?

In the more than ten years that Svoruz "disappeared", he had already searched everywhere he could.

Sure enough, in this world, the only one who can believe is yourself!

Negishi took a deep breath, trying to steady his trembling hands, and approached the office door step by step, then, slamming open, dodging quickly.

“……”

Nothing happened.

Outside the door was empty, nothing.

There are no intruders.

There is no river of blood as imagined.

Not to mention the corpses, Negishi didn't even find a trace of a fight.

He searched down the hallway, his pace picking up.

No......

No......

No......

There is no one anywhere!

The voice-activated lights in the hallway flickered as his footsteps approached, and then went out as his footsteps moved away.

In the glass windows on both sides, Negishi is constantly reflected.

Finally, he noticed that something was wrong.

"Got you!"

Negishi reversed his previous uneasiness and put a smug smile on his face.

He followed the clues he had worked so hard to uncover to the deepest part of the base, where the Knight System Laboratory was located.

Then, he saw that the door of the prison that he had long forgotten, which locked the test subjects of the knight system, was open without the slightest restriction.

Looking at the open prison door, Negishi's eyebrows suddenly furrowed.

"Could it be that the purpose of the invaders is to obtain the original material of this knight system?"

Negishi thought.

Yes, even now, Negishi never doubted that in fact, the test subject he had never looked at seriously was the root of all the events he had encountered over the years.

A little beggar caught casually on the street and no one wants, what kind of wind and waves can be stirred?

Is it because he is more resistant than other test subjects, lives longer, and passes through more experimental fields?

No, even if he lived like this for longer, Negishi wouldn't care.

An important experimental material for the knight system.

No, the rest of the experimental materials are dead, and he is the only one left, and of course he is the most important.

A rather surprising collection.

That's what Negishi said about him.

Other than that, Negishi didn't even know what his name was.

If you don't care, you won't check it.

Yes, what is the point of a wretched creature who no one wants, a prisoner who is at the mercy of others in the prison he has built, and who is at the mercy of what he wants, even if he knows the name?

It doesn't make sense.

So, as Subject No. 1, he only needs to have a nickname.

Iron-faced man.

Moreover, with the completion of the development of the knight system, and as the technology to turn humans into protozoa has become more sophisticated, the role of the test subject has become negligible......

Negishi recalled the report on Subject 1 as he cautiously approached the lightless prison.

He's ready to transform into an alien Kabuto at any moment.

"Heavenly Dao Director-General, I saw you."

Negishi didn't stand directly in the doorway to look into the cell, but leaned closer to the side wall.

This time, Negishi got a response.

"Woo! Woo——! ”

With the clatter of chains wrenching, a voice that could not be spoken, but could still be heard with surprise, soon sounded.

When Negishi heard this, he was stunned.

What's the situation?

And why does this sound so familiar?

He took a step sideways, stood in the middle of the door, and squinted into the dark prison.

The whites of his eyes turned black.

Darkness can't stop the compound eyes of the root shore worm.

Inside the prison, the "iron-clad man" with his limbs chained is also looking at Negishi longingly with a pair of black compound eyes of insects.

No hatred, no resentment.

What Negishi saw in those eyes was only joy and excitement.

Those eyes were saying—

[Help me!] 】

"......" Negishi.

Negishi's face kept changing, and then he didn't know what he thought, and his expression suddenly became extremely angry.

"Rubbish!"

He knew who the "iron-faced man" in front of him was.

I also know who the "invader" who turned the protozoan base into the current situation.

Huh, intruder? Wrong, it's a traitor!

If you don't know the protozoa base well, how can you "empty" the base so quietly?

As soon as he thought of this, Negishi turned around sharply and shouted:

- Daigo Tachikawa! You come out for me! ”

The words fell, and after a short silence......

Squeak –

The door of the laboratory closest to the prison cell was pushed open from the inside, and Daigo Tachikawa, dressed in a white coat, walked out of it with a calm expression.

"You traitor!" Negishi gritted his teeth and scolded.

In this regard, Tachikawa Daigo just replied calmly:

"Traitor?

"No, Negishi.

"You're the one who really betrayed the protozoa." (End of chapter)