latelenovela Chapter 298 Mom, Where Are You?
Chapter 298 Mom, Where Are You?
Along the Enoden line, the sea breeze carries a salty, damp scent.
Daigo, Rena, Shinjo, and Horii sat on a bench outside a small seaside shop, their faces showing signs of fatigue and frustration.
Following headquarters' instructions, they conducted a thorough search of the area where the Hoshino photographers sighted the monster for several hours, using all portable equipment such as life detectors, thermal scanners, and underground radar, but the result was the same as before: nothing was found.
Lina took a sip of her drink, gazed at the calm sea, and couldn't help but voice her doubts: "We've searched so many times, but we haven't found anything."
Could it be that... Consultant Yeming's judgment this time was really wrong?
Perhaps the anomaly has disappeared, or perhaps we've simply misunderstood, and the monster isn't here at all?
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Shinjo practically jumped up from the bench, his reaction unusually intense. "When has Yeming's judgment ever been wrong? From Golzairba to the previous Mechanical Island, wasn't he right every time? We must have overlooked some crucial detail! We just haven't found it yet!" Shinjo had almost absolute trust in Lin Yeming, a trust built on the tacit understanding and respect they had developed through countless battles together.
He could not accept the possibility that the lack of progress in the investigation was due to Lin Yeming's misjudgment.
Horii did not immediately join the argument. Instead, he crossed his arms, frowned, and repeatedly pondered the words "overlooked details."
His gaze unconsciously followed a slowly passing Enoden tram, its distinctive, somewhat drawn-out whistle echoing in his ears.
“The overlooked details… Enoden… time…” Horii muttered to himself. Suddenly, as if he had caught a key clue, he pulled out his PDI and quickly contacted headquarters.
"Headquarters, this is Horii! Please immediately find out the exact times of Hoshino's two eyewitness reports, preferably down to the minute!"
Soon, Norizumi's voice came through: "Team Member Horii, the data shows that the two sightings occurred at approximately 6:45 AM and 17:20 PM respectively. However, you have already thoroughly investigated both time periods, and the reports are still on my desk." Norizumi's voice carried a hint of helplessness.
"No, there must be something we've overlooked!" Horii said firmly, his mind racing. "Enoden...time...sound...that's it! It's sound!" He suddenly looked up at his companions. "Do you remember? Mr. Hoshino said that when he saw the monster, the Enoden immediately blocked it."
Lin Yeming, who had been listening to the communications, immediately continued his act, inserting his voice into the communication with a calm tone: "Ye Rui, immediately retrieve the complete on-site recording of Mr. Hoshino's first report, connect the analysis module of the pan-language translator, and perform in-depth spectrum analysis on the background sound!"
Horii's eyes lit up, immediately understanding Lin Yeming's intention: "You suspect the problem lies in the sound? The monster's appearance or fluctuations might resonate with or be triggered by a specific sound?" At this moment, Vice Captain Munakata also provided crucial information: "I remember now! When I was alone staking out and detected the faint abnormal fluctuations, an Enoden train happened to pass by with its horn blaring! The timing matches perfectly!" The clues instantly connected! The sighting time coincided with the train's passing time, and the abnormal fluctuations and the horn sounded simultaneously! Everyone's hearts were in their throats; they felt they were only one step away from uncovering the truth about this "invisible monster"!
"I understand! I'll handle it right away!" In the headquarters command room, Ye Rui also became excited, his hands flying across the control panel.
He imported the previously collected live audio stream, which included ambient sounds, into the advanced analysis module of the pan-language translator.
The system was originally designed to analyze alien languages or complex sound signals and has extremely strong noise filtering and feature extraction capabilities.
"Data connection complete! Analysis module loaded! I'm going to start playing and synchronously analyzing the recording of the sighting time in the early morning!" Ye Rui's voice was transmitted to the four people on site and Lin Yeming through the communicator.
Everyone held their breath; even the cries of seagulls in the distance seemed to disappear.
Daigo, Rena, Shinjo, and Horii all stood up straight at the same time, their eyes fixed on the PDI in Horii's hand, as if they could see the analysis waveforms on the headquarters computer screen through it.
Ye Rui pressed the Enter key on the keyboard.
A recording containing the sounds of waves and wind began to play.
A few seconds later, the distinctive, slightly deep whistle of the Enoden tram sounded from afar.
Almost the instant the whistle reached a certain frequency, the previously stable background audio spectrum on the pan-language translator's analysis interface suddenly exploded with an extremely complex and bizarre waveform that did not belong to any known natural or mechanical sound source! This waveform, hidden beneath the whistle, seemed to have produced some peculiar harmonious resonance with it and was amplified!
"There's something! There really is something!" Ye Rui shouted excitedly into the communicator. "We've analyzed it! The frequency of this hidden sound wave is extremely special, containing strong biological emotional characteristics! The translator is trying to decipher its emotional core..."
After removing the interference from the train horn, the general language translator translated the complex emotional core of the biological sound waves into language fragments that humans could understand, displaying them on the screen: 【…Mom…Where are you…I’m so scared…Go home…】 The sound source coordinates, after a second system calibration, were pinpointed with unparalleled precision to—a rock formation deep beneath the Enoden tram tracks, somewhere on the seabed! “Found it! The monster’s exact location! Right beneath the tram tracks, in the seabed rock formation! It’s in a special dormant or hidden state, only briefly emitting faint biological fluctuations under specific frequency sound resonances, and may even project its image onto the sea surface!”
Horii was so excited he almost jumped up, but his movements froze when he heard the word "Mom".
He couldn't help but recall the nightmare that terrified him.
Gazort, who treated his friends like food.
Daigo immediately looked at Rena and Shinjo: "We're coming right now!"
Now that the monster's location has been confirmed, the evacuation operation has begun.
Lucia and Zara will still lead the team.
With both of them operating skillfully, the evacuation was completed quickly.
However, by this time, it had already gotten dark.
Daigo and his three companions found the driver of the Enoden train and, after learning how to operate it, prepared to use the train's horn to lure the monster out.