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Ace relaxed his stance, fatigue flooding over him like a tide, and the energy light flashed rapidly like a buzzing.
But just when everyone thought the battle was over, the Pigeon Beast suddenly moved! Its chest suddenly released a colorful light. It was Ace's Metalium Ray!
The light was reflected back intact!
No one had expected that this super beast could absorb and reflect light. Perhaps the Yabo people had designed it specifically for Ace, the "Light King", and only at the last moment of the decisive battle did they reveal the true terror of the super beast.
Absorbing and utilizing the Ultra Warrior's light skills. This is simply a weakened version of Ace Killer.
But at this time, none of the Ultra Brothers gathered all their energy to this youngest brother. Not only that, Ace had really exhausted his energy. He could no longer avoid the light he released.
The light poured in.
His four brothers from the Ultra Guard are not here, but Gaia is here!
A bright red shield made of energy unfolds.
Ultraman Gaia held up a light shield and stood in front of Ace, completely blocking the reflected Metalium light.
[Brother Beidou, Bai Xue's problem is not your responsibility alone. Protecting the earth should not be your responsibility alone.]
Gaia, the will of the planet, is the original barrier of this planet. She has withstood countless crises for hundreds of millions of years and will continue to fight.
Ace bent down weakly, knelt on one knee and supported his body with his hands.
[I'm sorry for saying such a big thing.]
In fact, it has nothing to do with responsibility. He doesn't want Gaia to intervene in the battle because he doesn't want to destroy the warm picture in his memory.
The girl playing with pigeons in the quiet afternoon.
The picture formed by the dove, which is regarded as a symbol of peace, and the innocent girl is so harmonious that Beidou is willing to admit that on that day, at that moment, he really felt the long-lost peace.
Isn't that what Team TAC and Ace are ultimately pursuing after fighting so hard time and time again?
They believe that one day, the earth will be at peace again. There will be no more fighting, no more super beasts and aliens, and they will fight at all costs.
Even when doves no longer symbolized peace but instead became killing machines, Beidou really didn't want the image to be tainted by war.
However, he was not able to defeat the super beast. He talked beautifully, but he did not do what he promised.
When Gaia walked up to Ace, the opponent had squeezed too much energy with the Metalium Ray because he was confident of victory, and he was so weak that he couldn't even stand up.
【Leave it to me next.】
Whether Ace was willing or not, Gaia took over the battle. Ling was not aware of Beidou's entanglement, she just wanted to stop the super beast from causing further destruction. The farms in Shimizu Town had been destroyed a lot, and the fields and pastures that the farmers depended on for their livelihood had become riddled with holes.
She didn't know whether Aki's farm was involved, but just because she knew Aki, the losses of others would not become insignificant. It made no difference whose farm it was.
Gaia assumed a fighting stance.
It's not that he thinks he is definitely stronger than Ace, but after watching the battle just now, Gaia has completely understood all the methods and trump cards of the Ultra Beasts.
The light lingered all over her body, and the next moment her body changed. Her figure and the color of the pattern on her body also changed.
That was the V2 form with the added power of the Aguru Ocean. In this form, Gaia's various data increased dramatically.
The super beast has a strong defense that cannot be broken by ordinary skills. At the same time, it has the ability to absorb light and reflect it back.
It is indeed difficult to deal with such an opponent when you suddenly encounter him, but after you have become familiar with all of his abilities, he is not invincible.
The next moment, a lightsaber appeared in Gaia's hand, the blue lightsaber that originally belonged to Aguru.
Chapter 116: The Pigeon Returns
The lightsaber pierced into the super beast's skull.
There was no step omitted, and the battle really ended so abruptly. If it was put in the story, one would wonder if the series was too long and there was not enough time, so the budget was saved. Even Gaia himself was surprised.
No temptation, no struggle, just simple and unexpected.
Regardless, the battle ended too easily. When Gaia raised his lightsaber and stabbed at the super beast, the super beast did not resist or even dodge.
Ling didn't know whether it was because of the previous battle with Ace that it lost the ability to resist due to the injuries it suffered.
But she would rather believe that the reason why Chao Beast did not resist was because of Snow White herself.
The Yawa people created the super beast using Snow White's body as material. If there is one part of its body that has nothing to do with the former Snow White, it is its brain.
Snow White's brain had been physically removed by the Yabo people, and a chip to control the super beast was implanted in it. Only that was a completely foreign object.
Although it was irrational, Bai Xue's body rejected the command of the implanted chip at that moment, just as if it had escaped the control of the super beast at the end of the battle.
It makes no sense from both a technical and theoretical perspective, but sometimes, in some situations, 'reason' doesn't always apply.
Gaia's lightsaber destroyed the Yabo people's chip, and the central control was lost. The super beast let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground without a sound.
Its eyes closed, never to open again.
We won, but it didn't make us feel good. The midnight in late October was chilly, quiet and deep.
The two giants disappeared on the battlefield. After a long time, the quiet Shimizu Town gradually became noisy. It was the residents who had evacuated there earlier returning from the shelter after receiving the all-clear.
Large tracts of farms and farms were reduced to ruins, and many more were simply ruins. The fire had been extinguished, and the ruins could not be distinguished from the original appearance. The land where generations had lived had become so unfamiliar in just a few hours. Everything was gone, the farms were gone, and the homes were gone.
The only lucky thing is that he is still alive.
"The exact extent of the disaster is still being tallied, but no casualties have been reported so far. Thanks to the TAC team, the early warning was very timely, allowing the villagers to evacuate in advance."
The person who was talking to Captain Long was the head of the Public Security Bureau. They would take over the next step of disaster relief and reconstruction work, and the TAC team would have nothing to do with the rest of the work.
The fact that there were no casualties is indeed the best news, and this can be entirely attributed to the early warning radar position.
With the three radar stations in Tokyo as the hub, the entire network covers all directions. In order to ensure the normal operation of the entire radar network, it was worth the battle with the super beast Unitango a few months ago.
At that time, the Ultra Beast Unitango disguised himself as the ten members of the Daito Girls' School bicycle team who died in a landslide, and attacked the radar base station set up by TAC one after another. In that battle, Beidou went deep into the tiger's den, and Gaia also came to help, crushing the conspiracy of the Yabo people in one fell swoop, thus making this full-range radar network possible.
Up to now, whenever the Yabo people are ready to release super beasts, the dimensional fluctuations will be discovered by TAC in advance. Although it is only more than ten minutes in advance, the more than ten minutes of warning and evacuation are extremely valuable and enough to save many lives.
Under the halo of Ace and Gaia, TAC has never given up its efforts.
Those who save themselves will be saved by God, those who help themselves will be helped by God, and those who abandon themselves will be abandoned by God - this is an eternal truth.
In a devastated natural disaster scene, a little girl standing alone would not attract anyone's attention.
Dead animals were everywhere, chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, and so on. The villagers who took refuge could not take anything with them, and were not spared in the hurricane brought about by the super beast. She squatted down, and there lay a dead white pigeon in the mud.
Unlike the other animals that were smashed and thrown to pieces, the pigeon's body was still intact. Apart from a small hole the size of a chopstick on its head, there were no other signs of injury.
Lying quietly, as if asleep.
No one would care about a pigeon in the mud of the wilderness. It was no different from the other animals around it, a victim of the Yabo conspiracy.
Lingye took out a handkerchief from the pocket of her skirt and covered the dead pigeon with it.
"Should you bring it to Miss Aki?"
Hokuto Seiji watched the girl holding up the body of the white dove. He was not sure which was easier for Mikage Aki to accept: the disappearance of Shirayuki without any news or the clear news of her death.
Ling doesn't know either.
In the distance, various disaster relief vehicles were arriving one after another, disturbing the tranquility of the night. The frontline headquarters of the Public Security Bureau dispatched disaster relief supplies from the surrounding Ikeda, Meimuro, Shihoro and other places, and more supplies were being collected and transported from major cities such as Sapporo and Furano.
Tents were set up one after another to provide the affected people with a place to rest temporarily, and the voices of people gradually became noisy.
Aki learned about the attack on Shimizu Town by Ultra Beasts the next morning. The NHK morning news on the radio reported the latest developments.
The super beast attacked Shimizu Town, affecting an area of about 17 square kilometers, with large-scale damage to crops in farmland. More than 120 houses collapsed, and seven farms were affected, including the three worst-hit farms that were completely destroyed. Livestock losses cannot be counted for the time being.
In terms of personnel, one person was reported missing while taking refuge and has not been found yet. There were no other casualties reported.
Aki didn't expect that after Bai Xue disappeared, her home was also attacked by a super beast. She ran away from home in anger, and when she heard the news, she felt at a loss and lost her mind.
"The news said there were no reports of casualties. I think your family is all right."
Baxuan comforted him. He changed the channel on the radio, trying to see if there were other channels with more detailed reports, but after tuning around several times, there were only advertisements and music, and he didn't find the content he was looking for.
"Yeah." Aki agreed casually.
If the news hadn't clearly reported that she was safe, she would have been so worried that she would not be able to sit on the sofa in the living room like she is now.
But even if the people are safe and sound, the farm is the hard work of several generations of parents, grandparents, etc. I don’t know how they are doing now.
I finally finished writing the letter last night. It's strange, when Bai Xue was still alive, I always felt that I could send the letter back at any time and contact my family at any time, but I couldn't write it for a month. Every time the words slipped away at the tip of the pen, whether it was to report safety, complain, or apologize, I couldn't write anything.
But Bai Xue was gone, and the words in my heart naturally flowed onto the paper. It was a thick stack of paper, with a lot of long-winded words written on it.
But there are no more carrier pigeons to deliver letters.
Of course, she had thought about going back to see her parents and grandparents. During the month she was away from home, she didn't know if her departure would make her family sad. She had no brothers or sisters and was the only daughter in the family. She also didn't know if they were still safe.
However, she really didn't want to inherit the family farm, where every day would be the same as the day before. Every day's hard work would only earn her enough food to fill her stomach, and she wouldn't see any changes in the outside world.
Three years ago, her great-grandmother passed away.
This is not sad news, because at the age of 114 it is a happy funeral no matter where.
My great-grandmother was born in 1855, the year of the Edo Earthquake, three years after the Black Ship Incident. Of course, the Edo (now Tokyo) earthquake had nothing to do with the birth of a baby girl from a farm in Hokkaido. At that time, the place was not called Shimizu Town, and even the predecessor Shimizu Village did not exist. It was still part of Shari Village.
In the Black Ship Incident, the door to Japan was knocked open by the American fleet, and the Tokugawa shogunate was on the verge of collapse. More than a decade later, the shogunate fell and the Meiji era began. The vigorous Meiji Restoration began, followed by the decadent Taisho era and the war-filled Showa era.
Aki wondered if her great-grandmother's 114 years of life, in which she experienced all those great eras that were recorded in history books, had left any traces in her life. When she was young, Okita Souji was still active in the Shinsengumi. The Shinsengumi and the anti-foreigner activists were forging history with blood and tears, and were remade into various scripts countless times by later generations.
Girls nowadays think of life as romantic and exciting. In the recent upsurge of girls’ literature, there are many articles and poems about dreaming of returning to Edo published in newspapers and magazines. But these probably have nothing to do with my great-grandmother.
For 114 years, I have just been repeating the same routine in this remote mountain valley, growing up, getting married, having children, and then having grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Life remains the same, with no change except getting older day by day.
Aki shuddered at the thought that this was her future self.
She wanted to leave the poor mountain valley. She could not feel the beauty of the hermits, poems and paintings, spring and skylarks that Natsume Soseki talked about. She had seen too many spring fields and skylarks.
She is neither a poet nor a painter, she just wants to see the outside world, a world that is changing with each passing day. She wants to live in a place that can change with the times.
Wanting to live in a big city like Tokyo, even if it is very difficult, is this not allowed?
"Aki, I'll help you deliver the letter."
After tuning through all the channels on the radio again and failing to find what he was looking for, Hachiken suddenly said.
"Will you help me deliver it?"
"Yes, the letter you wrote, since Shirayuki is not here, I will deliver it for you. I will deliver it to Hokkaido. In fact, Tokyo is not far from Hokkaido. You can get there on the same day by plane. The young lady and I will take a leave and will be back tomorrow. You see, Shirayuki can fly, and so can I."
Hachiken knew that Aki wanted to live in Tokyo. As long as he was willing, he wouldn't have to bother thinking of sweet words to make the girl stay and stay with him forever.
But he, Hachiken Yugo, couldn't do such a thing. He hoped that Aki would consider everything, resolve the misunderstanding with her family and make a new choice, rather than running away from home and staying here.
He has done something wrong and has not returned home for so many years. So Aki cannot be like him.