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【Captain Long】
At first, Long thought it was Noriko who was contacting him on the communicator. He picked up the communicator, but soon found that it was not her, as the answer indicator on the communicator did not light up.
So whose voice is that?
"What's wrong, Captain?"
Seeing Long suddenly stand up, the team members were a little surprised.
"Didn't you hear that sound? Someone is talking."
"sound?"
"Captain, you must be hallucinating. This is what happens when you stay in a confined underground space for a long time."
Was that really his hallucination? Long wasn't sure, but it seemed that no one else heard it except him.
[Captain Long, the enemy this time is not a creature from Earth. So you don't have to feel guilty.]
This time Ryugoro heard clearly, and he realized who was talking to him.
[Gaia?]
Humans do not expect a response when they pray to gods, but Gaia is different.
A huge building complex suddenly appeared in front of Long. It was the underground city they were in. Humans were too small to see the whole picture, but now it was clearly presented to him from another perspective.
The entire area is a huge pentagon, which is very different from the architectural style of humans. Most of the houses are round bulges, piled high with stones, similar to the bulge of an ant nest.
The area is larger than an ordinary human village. In ancient times, it was probably a city of considerable size.
[Angramon, who calls himself an underground man, was not born on Earth. He is also an alien who came to this planet ten years ago. Not long ago, he occupied the city that originally belonged to the underground man.]
[So, this is not a conflict within the Earth. It is also a battle between humans and invaders.]
"Is he an alien invader?"
Long admitted that Gaia's news surprised him, and he felt a little surprised at an inappropriate time.
How hypocritical! Humans, myself included, are such hypocritical creatures that even in war we have to find a reason to stand on the side of justice.
Now Gaia gave them this reason, and the guilt that had been lingering on him disappeared.
The main gun began to fire. Rockets bombarded the monster's head one after another, smashing it back step by step.
Lunaticus jumped to the side to avoid being hit by the gunfire. The next second, it turned back into a small rabbit.
It sniffed around, then hopped and jumped, and soon jumped in front of Lingye.
"Although it's so lazy, its nose is so sensitive." Ling also picked up the rabbit, opened the secret realm and sent it in.
"Damn it, damn it, human beings!"
Angramon was furious, the underground was his home turf, yet he was forced to this extent.
It's just an underground tank!
"Smash it! Gitgitaga, crush this chariot to pieces!"
Jitgitaga shook his groggy head a few times. The tank's rockets exploded one after another. Although they were not fatal, they were indeed painful.
"Konno, you're in charge of driving. The terrain here is too narrow, and it's easy for the monsters to force us into a dead end. Drive the car into the underground city just now!"
The underground city was not far away. The underground chariot was burrowing into the ground, and the monster chasing behind was also burrowing into the ground.
Soon, the chariot emerged from the soil and came to a wide area.
Beidou glanced at his teammates in the tank. Here, in front of everyone, he had no chance to turn into Ace. So he would fight with human strength.
"Captain, I'll operate the main gun."
"Okay, please."
The Platypus' main gun is a large laser cannon, of the same specifications as the Eagle's main gun.
"The main gun begins charging, Konno, fire steadily!"
"I see. But you better aim well, Beidou. Don't blow this thing up."
A beam of light accurately hit the tentacles on the head of Gitgitaga, breaking them. The monster fell to the ground and rolled over in pain.
"Well done, Beidou! Let's send it to the sky with the next shot!"
It's not easy, but it's worth a try. Beidou once again aimed the main gun's aiming box at the monster. The shooting angle was not good, and this time the laser cannon hit the monster's rough skin, with no results.
Captain Long looked around carefully, comparing it with the image that Gaia had previously presented in his mind, and soon made a discovery.
"Over there, in the central area, there is a tall tower. The real underground people are imprisoned there."
"Real underground people? But Captain," Mu Kaji hesitated, "I have read the files of Team Kurt, and the real underground people have fought with us and are our enemies too."
Long was silent. He really didn't know this. So, they were really enemies of the whole world?
"Haha, that's it. Humans and all intelligent creatures are enemies. That's your true colors."
A huge negative object stood in front of the Platypus. It was Angramon, who had grown enormous.
Angramon and Gitgitaga blocked the Platypus in the middle.
"You call me an invader? But I still need to thank you. It was you who defeated the underground people that allowed me to occupy this place."
Six years ago, humans were attacked by underground people.
They disguised themselves as operators visiting the Paris headquarters of the Kote Team, kidnapped Kote Team member Hayata, and sent out the underground monster Teleston to attack Tokyo.
In that battle, the first Ultraman defeated Teleston, and humans also wiped out the invading underground people.
"Teleston is the patron saint of the underground people. Thanks to your elimination of Teleston, I can wipe out these remaining underground people in one fell swoop."
"Why, at this point, you still want to pretend to be friends with the Underground People? You have no friends!"
"I have no friends! I will never have any! On this planet, you call yourself the creator at the top of the food chain. In this universe, there are civilizations everywhere that covet this planet. You can only fight non-stop. Either you kill me or I kill you."
We should have realized this from the moment we fired the first shot.
The world is not so naive that people want to be friends after gunshots and bloodshed. Once the spiral of hatred begins, it will never end.
As Angramon spoke, he actually took two steps to the side, moving away from the tall tower behind him.
"You guessed right. The remnants of the underground people are in this tower. They are my slaves now. But it doesn't matter. I can give up these slaves. Come on, fire at the tower and crush it with your laser cannons. In this way, the remnants of the underground people who hate humans will disappear."
Angramon said this and did exactly what he did. He just sat down in front of a nearby building, seemingly not intending to interfere in the affairs between humans and the underground people.
"team leader!"
Yamanaka, Konno, and Hokuto all looked at the dragon.
"I think what Angramon said is correct," said Mukaji. "We are already enemies with the underground people. They were the first to invade the surface, cut off Tokyo's external communication signals, kidnapped the members of the Kurt team, and let the monsters destroy the city. They had the intention of invasion from the beginning."
"What do you want to say, Kiji-kun? You want to say that humans are victims, so they have the right to revenge, and even to uproot the other party and kill them all, right?"
Mu Kaji didn't say anything, but he did think so.
"What do you think, Yamanaka?"
"Me? I obey all the captain's orders!"
Long shook his head. This was not what he wanted to hear.
"Konno, what about you?"
Konno looked at Captain Long, then turned to look at Beidou and Yamanaka, and he couldn't say anything either.
If it is an enemy, it is better to destroy it. Dead enemies are reassuring, and this has been the case since the Kot Team, the Ultra Guard, and the MAT Team. Konno also believes that destroying all enemies that threaten the earth is their mission.
"Beidou," Captain Long looked at the last member of the team, "I want to hear your opinion."
"I'm thinking, there's something Angramon said that's not true. Humans are not alone. After all, there's someone who came here alone after her home world was destroyed, just wanting to save her brother planet from the disaster. She fought for the Earth again and again. No one knows she's from the universe, because she loves this planet more than anyone else."
Long knew that he was talking about Nan Xizi, the sister from the moon.
"She is gone, but I will never forget this friendship. Human beings are not alone in the universe. So, what we need to do is to pass on this kindness."
Chapter 203: The Desire to Survive
Long thought about it.
During the short period of time when he was unconscious, he saw a dream.
The reason why he didn't say he was dreaming, but saw a dream, was because he couldn't confirm whose dream it was. It wasn't his, nor was it someone else's. Perhaps it was the dream of this planet itself.
In his dream he saw a history of civilization.
It is not magnificent or soul-stirring. In the 200,000 years since the birth of Homo sapiens, humans have had too many civilizations.
Every civilization is great, and what he saw was just one of them that was not special. The only special thing about it was that it still exists today.
Come to think of it, the island country where he lives is also a tributary of this civilization.
When Egypt invaded West Asia, it was the Shang Dynasty. When Persia invaded Babylon, the Zhou emperor ruled the world. When Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded the East, it was in the Warring States Period.
Perhaps it was accidental, although it had been in constant conflict for thousands of years, it had never fought a war with an ancient civilization of the same size. Even if the wars of ethnic minorities dominated it for a certain period of time, they could not cause fundamental harm to it, and eventually merged into it.
But is such accidental luck the reason why it continues to this day?
The dragon saw the wars between ancient civilizations. After Jerusalem was occupied, the ground was dug deep and the city was set on fire. After Baghdad was invaded, the Tigris River was opened to release water, destroying the entire remains of civilization. Salt and thorns were spread on the occupied land, completely destroying the land, leaving no grass for hundreds or thousands of years. This is what many civilizations would do to each other after becoming the victor.
Just like Mu Qi said, uprooting the weeds and killing all the enemies, this is how wars between civilizations should be. Almost all ancient civilizations on Earth were like that.
The only surviving ancient civilization is an exception.
It seems too naive to understand the cruelty of real war. Obviously, one war is enough to destroy everything, but here it has become a game of "long division will lead to reunion, and long reunion will lead to division".
It was indeed a game. If the enemy was not annihilated and all bloodlines were not destroyed, in the war standards of ancient civilizations, such a war was a game. It was too sentimental. Killing 400,000 surrendered soldiers was the standard procedure, but there was only one Bai Qi in thousands of years.
Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turks, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolia, it has experienced too many wars of foreign invasion, and the same blood feud, but it seems that it has never learned its lesson, and has not really and thoroughly slaughtered all the descendants of civilization, nor has it spread salt on the grassland and planted thorns to completely destroy the vitality of the land. Instead, it intermarried, reclaimed land, and brought civilization to the wild land, so that there are now 56 ethnic groups on that land.
The doctrine of the mean, loyalty and filial piety, propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, Arabia, Babylon, they probably could not imagine how such ideas could become the mainstream of a civilization.
However, ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon have become ruins, and not even their history has been left.
“So, even if it’s considered stupid, I want to try to believe.”
What Gaia showed me was not a story, but a true story. If we only think about destruction and killing, then this world is too sad. Therefore, even if it is a former enemy, learning to forgive is definitely not a meaningless thing.
"Everyone, listen to my orders. Rescue the underground people and eliminate Angramon!"
Even if they had invaded humans before, and even if they might repay kindness with hatred in the future, humans would be too lonely if they did not try to accept them. Long remembered what Beidou had always said.