"Oh, shit!"
"You're actually in my head right now!"
"This is disgusting!"
After the Drift began, Hermann sensed Newton's presence in the ocean of memories.
It was an incredibly strange feeling. In this moment he could freely browse Newton's memories and fully experience Newton's thoughts.
Two geniuses with clashing personalities, now crammed together inside their heads—it truly made them feel nauseous.
"You think I'm not disgusted?" Newton shot back.
"Oh, so you have two brothers and a sister." Newton saw Hermann's relatives in his memories and experienced his feelings at the time. This was quite interesting.
"Shit! Don't randomly look at my memories!" Hermann immediately scolded Newton.
"Oh haha, I knew you must've gotten beat up plenty at school." Newton saw Hermann's memories of being beaten by thugs during his school years and couldn't help teasing. "That punch really landed hard."
"You're no better than me! You shut-in! You don't even have friends!" Hermann likewise saw Newton's memories, his attacks equally sharp, his voice particularly grating.
"Do you?" Newton continued looking through Hermann's memories, quickly seeing content that made his face turn green.
"Fuck, you actually do!"
"I see Vanessa. Why the hell do you get to have a wife who loves you so much! This isn't fair!" Newton knew Hermann had a wife, but seeing their intimate moments firsthand made him grit his teeth in jealousy.
He was still single while this guy's kid was about to be born.
"Shit! Stop looking!" Hermann also saw this memory and immediately shouted. Any more and it wouldn't pass review.
"OK OK..." Newton still maintained a final shred of respect in this area, not fully prying into Hermann's private life.
All this happened within a fraction of a second.
It was the adaptation phase before they established connection with the Kaiju brain.
"Are you ready?"
"The Kaiju's memories will flood in like a torrent. You need to stand firm or they'll wash you away." Newton, having done this once before, reminded Hermann.
"I know." Hermann was somewhat nervous, but with Newton's help quickly adjusted his mindset.
Unlike the first Drift experiment, this time they faced it together.
They both knew they were freaks in normal people's eyes. Not making friends wasn't really anyone else's fault.
They couldn't stand each other either, arguing every day.
But when the organization transitioned from official to private and funding was drastically cut, countless researchers chose to leave. Only these two chose to stay—and then continued arguing every day.
Now, when the world needed them, they stood up together.
"Thanks, Hermann." Incredibly, Newton actually thanked Hermann.
He'd originally thought he'd be Drifting with the Kaiju brain alone. He hadn't expected Hermann to step up too.
"I just felt... I should do something." Hermann was very uncomfortable with this statement, saying it awkwardly.
Though they argued daily, deep down they recognized each other.
"Well... I shouldn't have said you had no friends."
"At least right now, I count as your friend." Hermann extended a hand, looking at Newton.
"Yeah, we're friends." Newton smiled, extending his hand to clasp Hermann's.
The next second—
The torrent of Kaiju memories surged in, submerging them in an ocean of recollections.
"ROAR!"
"SCREECH!"
Kaiju roars echoed continuously. The two switched back and forth between the Kaiju's perspective and their own, feeling their brains severely overclocking.
"Hold on!"
"We can hold on!"
Soon, from the Kaiju's perspective they saw a space of deep blue, similar to the crimson space the Precursors had colonized before, but smaller.
There were several Kaiju factories, but no mass production of Kaiju.
The Kaiju inside the factories weren't species they'd seen before. They didn't look particularly combat-capable, resembling Leatherback somewhat but smaller, with the EMP organs on their backs replaced by small tower-like tumorous growths.
This Kaiju was definitely mixed with numerous genes. Active brains were faintly visible beneath its skin—hard to imagine how many secondary brains were stuffed inside this creature.
"Are you certain this weapon will work?"
Suddenly, they heard language unique to the Precursors. Thanks to being inside the Kaiju's brain, they could barely understand it.
It was a tall, thin Precursor with a large crest—looked like archbishop level.
"It's not particularly strong in combat. Can't handle that giant." This archbishop asked another Precursor beside him.
This batch of Precursors who'd transferred early all knew about the disaster in the other space.
"In terms of combat power, we can never defeat that giant." The other Precursor answered.
Given the combat ability the giant had displayed, no number of Kaiju would be enough.
They could only use special methods.
"The humans developed something called unmanned Jaegers, utilizing much of our technology." This Precursor spoke unhurriedly. "But they can't imagine that we, masters of biotechnology, can reactivate their brains."
The Drift was mutual. When Newton first connected with the Kaiju, information about the unmanned Jaegers being developed had been exposed to them.
For them, this was the last chance.
"And for this, I must thank you." This Precursor suddenly smiled at the Kaiju before him.
As if not speaking to the Kaiju, but to the two doctors inside its brain.
"Shit!"
"How did he detect us!?" Newton and Hermann both startled simultaneously, hurriedly withdrawing from the Drift state.
Before the Drift completely ended, they heard one final exchange.
"Then I leave everything to you. This will be our last chance, Quek." The archbishop said.
If this plan failed again, their species that could only survive through invasion would become dust in history's pages.
"I won't fail the Precursor name." Quek smiled slightly, bowing his head.
In the Precursors' territory, the Ultraman didn't need to consider anything beyond combat. But if they moved the battlefield into human cities, he didn't believe that Ultraman would dare freely unleash his beams.
This was their last chance—and their greatest chance.
On Earth, the Ultraman's activity time limit was undoubtedly three minutes. Add in the terrain restrictions, and this time they'd truly found a possibility of victory.
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