Many people gathered at the beach in the early morning.

"The super beast you mentioned is really not bragging?"

Village policeman Matsukami Fujimura asked with some suspicion. The man who pulled him to call the police was a bearded sailor. As someone who grew up by the sea, Fujimura was very familiar with this group of people even though he was not a fisherman. He usually went to the sea to fish.

, I soaked myself in a wine vat when I got ashore, just like this bearded man, I can still smell the wine.

"It's true. There was a child who also saw it at that time." Seeing that the police didn't believe him, the bearded man was a little anxious. He looked around and unexpectedly spotted the little boy hiding outside the crowd. "Officer, it's

He! It’s this child!”

"Meng Er!" Village policeman Matsu Shang also saw this little bastard who asked many people in the village to search for him most of the night yesterday. "Where did you go yesterday? I didn't even see you back at night. Everyone thought you were there."

Fell into the sea to feed the fish."

"I found my dad. I was with my dad last night."

"Your father? What nonsense are you talking about? Come on, don't run away today, come back to the village with me! You are still pretentious, Mr. Konno may not agree to adopt you, you are so naughty."

Matsukami didn't want to talk nonsense, so he stepped forward and pulled Meng Er to leave.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, Mr. Police, it's this kid. He can prove what I said. He also saw the Super Beast last night!" Seeing that Fujimura didn't believe his report and was about to leave, the bearded man hurriedly stopped him:

"He also stole things from our boat, we can't let him go!"

"Stealing something? Meng Er, did you steal something?"

"No!"

"You are still quibbling, I obviously saw you take it..." Big Beard clenched his teeth tightly. What he cared about was not whether the boy stole anything, but he just wanted him to prove to himself that the super beast attacked the crew. Otherwise, the other party's family members

If the death was caused by an accident while out at sea, as the owner, the funeral expenses and various compensations would not be enough to compensate him even if he sold the boat, which would make him bankrupt and pay for his death.

If it can be determined that it was a super beast attack, the government will have a compensation payment for those who were killed by the super beast attack, which can greatly reduce their compensation amount. It may even only require a humanitarian compensation of several hundred thousand yen to avoid being killed.

Just gossip.

"That's a horseshoe crab, it's not your thing. The teacher said that horseshoe crabs are endangered creatures and cannot be caught!"

"Wait, you caught the horseshoe crab secretly? I can't pretend that I didn't hear this."

"No... Mr. Police, don't listen to his nonsense, we didn't..."

"Then what did Meng Er steal?"

"This..." Big Beard couldn't say anything for a moment, and said with a sad face, "Isn't it the super beast that you should pay attention to? The super beast eats people!"

"The Super Beast is the TAC team's business. Of course I will report it. But catching horseshoe crabs is my business. Come on, follow me to the police station!"

Watching Matsukami take away the bearded man, the onlookers gradually dispersed. Meng Er also wanted to leave, but saw a fat uncle walking in front of him. It was the same uncle he saw getting off the bus yesterday.<

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"Your name is Meng Er, right? Did you really see what happened last night?"

Meng Er said nothing. At this time, a girl next to him came over and handed over a white conch.

"Is this your thing? I just saw it fall off of you."

Meng Er quickly touched his pocket and found that the conch his father gave him had fallen out of his pocket at some point. It was his treasure. Meng Er took the conch and said thank you.

"Isn't that quite polite?" Konno smiled and ruffled the boy's hair.

"Mengji, this is my uncle, he is a member of TAC." The girl Yumiko said. She is the daughter of Konno Dairo's cousin, Konno Dairo. She is the child of the family who wants to adopt Mengji.

Mengji knew Yumiko, they were both children of Murakami, but they had never spoken before, so they were not familiar with each other.

"Listen to me, Meng Er, I heard about your father. Their fishing boat was attacked by a super beast at sea. There is information that it was a super beast with huge tentacles."

"Giant tentacles?"

Hearing Konno mention the huge tentacles, Meng Er recalled what he saw yesterday. Although it was just a glimpse, he also saw a huge tentacle, dragging the crew into the sea without any resistance.

He suddenly realized that the super beast he saw yesterday was probably the one that killed his father! That super beast, the murderer of his father, was actually right in front of him yesterday!

And he was so focused on escaping that he didn't know anything about it. Meng Er suddenly felt very angry, whether it was towards the super beast or himself.

"Uncle, are you really a TAC member? Can you destroy super beasts?"

"Of course." Konno took out the communicator with the TAC logo and waved it in front of Meng Er, "The elimination of super beasts has always been our TAC's responsibility."

Meng Er nodded seriously. His father went to sea for many days and did not come back. He had already had a hunch that his father would not abandon him unless he had to. So he had already bought bamboo strips and white paper, but he still held the hope in his heart.

I had some hope that my father's fishing boat had been delayed by something, until I got the exact information from the police station yesterday.

My father was killed by a super beast.

The villagers said that he was stimulated and had mental problems. But Meng Er knew that he just wanted to avenge his father. No one believed that a twelve-year-old child could really destroy the super beast, so in their eyes

Meng Er is stupid and keeps talking nonsense.

But Meng Er is serious, not because he wants to prove anything, just because he wants to do this.

After confirming Konno's identity, Meng Er lowered his guard.

"Okay, come with me!"

Meng Er led the two of them across the beach to the previous cave. On the shallow beach in front of the cave lay a horseshoe crab.

"Is this the horseshoe crab that was poached by the fishing boat yesterday?"

"Yes, and he is my father."

"What, your father?" Yumiko couldn't help laughing, but then she felt a little rude and suppressed her smile, "But people don't have a helmet crab as a father, a helmet crab only gives birth to helmet crab babies.

”

"But he is my father, and he can talk to me! Listen!"

Mengji picked up the horseshoe crab and heard his father's voice again. But Tsutomu Konno and Yumiko heard nothing.

"What did it say?" Konno asked tentatively, not sure if it was a child's prank.

"My dad, he said that Gaia saved him and allowed him to stay here. He wanted to watch me grow up."

"Gaia? Is it really the name Gaia?"

"Yes, my dad said that."

Konno was a little surprised when Ultraman's name came out of the child's mouth, but he couldn't help but believe it in his heart. Although resurrecting the dead sounds like a fantasy, since it is Ultraman, it makes people feel that it is not.

That’s unacceptable.

"What else did he say?" Konno unconsciously changed the name of the horseshoe crab from 'it' to 'him'.

"Dad, he said that a terrible creature appeared in the sea. It was a 'man-eating helmet crab'. It was controlled by the people in the universe. It grew up day by day by eating people, and its hatred for humans also increased day by day.

Increase."

"Hate for humanity?"

"Yes, because the helmet crab (horseshoe crab) is about to be extinct by humans. So it is very angry, and the people from the universe transformed it and gave it the power to take revenge on humans."

Konno opened his mouth when he heard this but didn't know what to say. Horseshoe crabs have been living on this planet for 500 million years, and they appeared in the era before dinosaurs. In comparison, humans have been around since the beginning of Homo sapiens.

It’s only 200,000 years old.

It has experienced five mass extinctions in the history of the earth. It was earlier than the trilobites. It saw the trilobites become extinct, the carnivorous placoderms became extinct, therapsids became extinct, and a large number of molluscs and brachiopods became extinct.

became extinct, and finally the dinosaurs became extinct. However, the horseshoe crab has escaped natural disasters time and time again and continues to this day. It can be called a living fossil, a miracle of immortal life.

But it is on the verge of extinction today because of humans.

It has every reason and qualification to take revenge on humans. Whether it eats people or even destroys cities, compared with what humans have done to them, how it takes revenge is reasonable.

But Konno doesn't allow it because he is human.

"Wait a minute, my dad said the super beast is approaching! It's coming!"

"What?" Konno was shocked. Almost at the same time, the entire sea surface began to shake.

"Go quickly, go quickly!"

Konno is on vacation right now, so he doesn’t have any weapons with him. The only thing he has with him is a communicator.

"TAC Headquarters, call TAC Headquarters, please answer if you hear me! A super beast appeared on the coast of Okayama!"

Beidou, which was patrolling in the air on the Cosmos, immediately received the information relayed by the headquarters.

"Okayama? Got it? I'm right above the Seto Inland Sea and can be there in three minutes. But that guy Konno, we've been patrolling for two days and haven't found anything. He can meet super beasts even if he takes a vacation? Nope.

Know whether to call it good luck or bad luck."

In the ocean, a large number of bubbles emerged from the water as if it were boiling. A huge shadow gradually rose from the bottom of the sea, and then broke through the waves and rushed out of the sea. It was a creature with a crab's mouthparts and a tail like a long tentacle.

This guy has four pairs of degenerated pincers on his chest.

It’s not just a horseshoe crab, it’s more like a monster made up of various marine creatures.

"It must be the Yabo people again, playing with the creatures on the earth at will. It's so abominable."

The Yabo people obviously have such powerful technology, but they like to transform the aboriginal creatures on the earth to attack the earth. It has to be said that it is full of bad taste.

The super beast kicked the flood control embankment. The force of tens of thousands of tons was far beyond what the cement embankment could withstand, and it was easily broken. Sea water poured out along the gap in the embankment, flooding a low-lying salt field.<
To be continued...