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The enthusiasm cannot be extinguished.
Passion is easy to say, but it is very difficult to achieve. However, he also wants to try.
"Captain, I will go to the tower and rescue the real underground people!" Beidou volunteered.
"Be safe, Konno, you come too."
"Me? Got it, Captain!"
"Captain, let me go." Yamanaka said, "Beidou is too impulsive, and Konno can't be trusted."
"No, Yamanaka, your mission is to stay here with me and destroy Angramon and the monsters."
Although Beidou is impulsive and sometimes does things without considering the consequences, he is the one that Captain Long trusts the most.
Beidou put on the oxygen mask again. He actually wanted to act alone, so that even if he encountered an emergency, he could still turn into Ace. But since it was the captain's order, he had no choice but to obey. He and Konno put on the oxygen tanks and quietly left the Platypus.
Angramon could not understand why humans attacked him again. If he were human, he would definitely choose to destroy those underground people and nip all threats in the bud.
No one would know what humans have done. Forty thousand meters underground, close to the magma layer of the mantle, no matter what they do, the crust will naturally cover up all the secrets and bury everything in the soil. All hypocrisy is meaningless, just instinctively show your fangs.
Don't they even understand this? How did such creatures continue their civilization for tens of thousands of years?
"Gitgitaga, I have lost my patience, destroy these idiots!"
Angramon and Gitgitaga approached the Platypus at the same time, making it impossible for the chariot to take care of both the front and rear.
Red lasers shot out from Angramon's eyes, melting the soil on the ground and hitting the Platypus's armor. Although the several-meter-thick armor was not penetrated immediately, a large piece of it was melted.
"Oh no, the tank's defense system is overloaded!"
It caused huge damage in just one strike, and the temperature in the cabin instantly rose by several degrees. The next second, the laser struck again, but this time it did not hit the platypus.
The giant appeared before the platypus.
"It's Gaia!"
The Giants of Light will not make choices on behalf of humans. They will only appear after humans have made a choice.
"Is this what you want to see, Gaia? Is the stupid farce of mankind and the hypocritical choices enough to please you?"
Gaia knocked over the monster Gitgitaga with a side kick, then stood in front of Angramon.
"This is not a farce. Forgiving former enemies and making such a choice is the reason why humans can survive to this day. Angramon, I don't know who asked you to come to Earth, Zoda or someone else. But you only want to conquer and destroy everything in front of you so that you can own everything. This is barbaric, so you can only hide underground."
Even without her, he would not have succeeded. Humans would not give in so easily.
On the other side, Beidou and Konno rushed all the way to the tower. Although it looked like a tall building from a distance, it was even more shocking when standing in front of the tower. This underground space of more than 40,000 meters was a hundred meters high and filled with everything within sight. Beidou couldn't even find the entrance for a moment.
"Here, there is a door!" Konno pointed the TAC gun at a wall. It was indeed a door, but it was difficult to find because it blended in with the surroundings.
Konno tried to open it, but with all his strength he found that the door didn't move at all.
"I'll do it!" Beidou fired a shot with the TAC gun, and the door finally opened.
"Ah, sometimes violence does work better."
Unexpectedly, the tower was not completely dark, but was lit. After staying in the dark for too long, Beidou and Konno were not used to the light for a while.
"Although we have no sight, we want to get used to this light and stand under the sun one day. Humans from the surface, everything you have is what we dream of."
The person who was speaking was not far from the opened door. Except for the fact that his face had no eyes and had degenerated into a thin film, he looked no different from an ordinary human.
Inside the tower, there was an open square. Because there were lights everywhere, one could see a lot of people in the square, probably hundreds of people, some standing, some sitting on the ground. They all looked like humans, with ragged clothes, like a group of beggars.
"Here are all our remaining compatriots. In the war six years ago, many of our compatriots died in an instant because they couldn't stand the strong light of Ultraman."
It's really ironic. They investigated Ultraman and knew Ultraman's true face, so they kidnapped Hayata. They successfully hypnotized Hayata and wanted to use Ultraman for their own benefit to invade the human world. However, at the moment when Ultraman transformed, he could not withstand the extremely strong light, and a large number of underground people died.
They long for light, but light never belongs to them.
"Are you here to save us, or are you planning to kill all of us who are left?" The underground man said calmly, as if to them, there was no difference between the two choices. They were not surprised that humans appeared here.
"If we rescue you, what will you do? Continue the invasion of the surface?"
"You mean invasion? The ground originally belonged to us. Did you know that humans lived on this land long before the Ice Age? They were our ancestors, and also your ancestors. Then the Ice Age came. It was a period of time that was too cold, and no life could survive in such low temperatures. So we had to come underground. Forty thousand meters underground, with the help of geothermal heat near the magma layer, we finally got the warmth to sustain life and survived. More than two million years is really too long to look back on. We have even adapted to the thin oxygen underground."
"But that bright world is what our ancestors have longed to return to."
"If we could, we would always want to go back to the surface."
Every underground person has this dream, and they will admit to anyone that they have this dream.
"But there's no going back."
Even if humans didn't object, they couldn't go back. Their bodies couldn't adapt to the overly strong sunlight, nor could they adapt to the high concentration of oxygen for a long time. They realized this at that moment six years ago. Ultraman didn't attack them, but just accidentally transformed into the light at that moment. It was obviously the light they longed for, but it killed almost all the underground people.
The tower shook, and even cracked for a moment. The battle between Angramon and Gaia had affected this place, and the light from Angramon's eyes had hit the tower.
"Leave quickly, leave here first, this tower may collapse at any time." Beidou said.
"Leave, then where to go? To us, everywhere is the same cage. Don't you understand, humans from the earth, we are a group of people who have long been abandoned."
They longed for light, but could not be accepted by it. The prophets who had led them all died, under the light, and Teleston who had protected them also died, at the hands of the giant of light. They had nothing left, and spent the whole day hiding in the darkness of the underground, barely surviving.
"But Gaia is fighting now, protecting us, and also protecting you. You can't see it, can't you feel it?"
"Gaia?"
"Even if it's hard for people on Earth to accept you, at least Gaia will. Now that I think about it, she wanted us to come underground to find you from the beginning, right? It's hard to imagine that, except for the lack of eyes, you look exactly like us. If you wear sunglasses, we might not be able to tell each other apart, right?"
Gaia
He could indeed feel it. This was a different giant of light from the one they had tried to hypnotize before, a giant of light from this planet.
But will they really be accepted?
"Hurry up, this tower is really going to collapse!" Konno urged. He could already hear the stone pillars wailing, and the load-bearing walls were about to collapse.
Most of the underground people were still hesitant until the one who spoke first stood up.
"I...I want to try again. If this planet really hasn't abandoned us, let's try to survive."
"Yes, staying alive is more important than anything else." Although it was the captain's order at the beginning, Konno really felt some sympathy when looking at such underground people.
Even though they were enemies of humans six years ago and used monsters to wreak havoc in Tokyo, they are also life on this planet. Maybe they have the same ancestors as humans.
But at this moment, there was an ominous roar, and the huge stone pillar fell down. The tower collapsed!
Finished, this was Konno's only thought at that moment. He subconsciously shrank his head and closed his eyes. But the pain of being hit did not occur.
Seeing the warm light, Konno opened his eyes and saw a huge hand hugging the stone pillar.
"Ace!"
The light at that moment made the underground people fear instinctively. But they found that they were not killed.
Different from the light that Hayata shone when he transformed with the Beta Magic Wand, Ace's light is so gentle, his enthusiasm is inextinguishable, and anyone can become his friend. He sympathizes with the weak and helps the weak, even if this wish is betrayed thousands of times.
But as long as you get a response once, you can become true friends and it will all be worth it.
Chapter 204: Battle in the Field
Although the underground battle was not restrictive for Gaia, it was not very friendly to the Platypus and the underground people who were affected by the aftermath.
Angramon was not shy in fighting, the light from his eyes splashed everywhere, not caring at all that it would cause the entire space to collapse.
The temperature of the laser was so high that it could even melt the ground. The huge tower began to collapse as soon as it was swept by the aftermath. Even Gaia was unable to stop it in time.
Fortunately, Ace appeared in the light in time and saved the tower that was about to collapse.
"Gaia, are you so eager to save others, these ant-like creatures? What do they mean to you?"
It is useless except for creating some garbage. Instead, it consumes resources endlessly. One day, all the resources on the earth will be exhausted.
Gaia did not answer. For her, the existence of life itself was its meaning, and there was no need to look for other values.
In order to prevent the aftermath of the battle from spreading to other places again, she communicated with the Nexus Medal, and the power of time and space condensed, and a huge light curtain spread out -
Meita field!
"This again!"
Yamanaka, Kiji and Ryuya all saw the familiar light curtain. Every time Gaia used this, he would disappear along with the monster.
Although I know that this is Gaia's skill and it is meant to protect them, it doesn't feel good to be unable to do anything.
"Charge in!" Captain Long ordered.
"Ah? Rush in?"
"This is Gaia's battle, and it's also our human battle. Do you want to watch Ultraman fight alone every time?"
After hearing this, both Kizuki and Yamanaka nodded. Especially Kizuki, for a scientist, nothing is more attractive than the unknown space. If possible, he would definitely like to go and take a look.
The Platypus' engine roared, and it rushed into the light curtain the moment it fell.
If Gaia wants, she can certainly exclude the Platypus from Meta's domain. However, as mentioned before, Gaia will not interfere with human's own choices, which means that if they choose to fight together, Gaia will not refuse.
Therefore, this time, the glory of the Meta domain also included the Platypus.
"This is really... so amazing, is this another world?" Mu Kaji put his face close to the observation mirror of the Platypus. The instantaneous spatial change is actually impossible to intuitively feel with human body senses. What is needed is a more specific observation instrument.
From a visual perspective, what I saw was an incomprehensible array of colors, and then I came to an unknown space.
Here, the sky is a gorgeous glow, the land is covered with endless hills, and the mottled ruins of civilization are the last proof of many great memories. The former glory and prosperity are only ruins.
"Where on earth is this place——"
"The tombstone of civilization," Mu Kaji murmured, "If we humans eventually become extinct, will we also leave behind a tombstone as the final record?"
"This kind of thing will never be allowed to happen!"
In this glorious realm, Gaia's power was greatly enhanced, and she lifted the monster and smashed it towards Angramon. The two huge creatures rolled into a ball, the hills shook, and the dust that covered countless civilizations floated up and slowly fell.
"I won't let you stop Gitgitaga, Gaia, even you can't!" Angramon stood up, and a ball of blue light suddenly spurted out of his mouth.
The ball of light moved extremely fast, and when Gaia tried to dodge, it spread into a curtain of light and bound her up.
"Gaia is trapped!"
"Kuji, the weapon system isn't ready yet?"
The chariot was hit by Angramon's light before, and due to a momentary overload, the weapon system was paralyzed again.
"Please wait a moment. The hardware has been repaired. It's just that the current is overloaded. The previous data has been corrupted. I need to re-enter it. Just give me another ten minutes."
It was just that he was stuck. All the data was in his brain. If someone else in the maintenance team were to do it, it would take at least a day or two to fix it. Captain Long was still a little dissatisfied. He didn't say anything, but Yamanaka couldn't help but speak.