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"After that, all you have to do is hold this hairpin and yell out my name, and I will appear."
"Name? Lingye?"
"No, it's Gaia."
"Gaia?"
Sakura was stunned for a moment, and couldn't figure out what this meant for a moment. In a daze, she found herself at the lake.
She didn't know how she got here, nor did she know if this was the real Higashiyamato City or if she was dreaming again.
There was a bridge at the narrow part of the lake, and she was on the bridge. Thinking back, she had also appeared on this bridge in her previous dream, and then...
The lake suddenly began to boil, just like in her dream last night. Sakura could even clearly know what would happen in the next second.
Sure enough, a terrifying monster emerged from the boiling lake. It had a hideous triangular head and sharp teeth that made terrible noises from time to time, just like an anglerfish in the deep sea.
It embodies all the characteristics that children fear most in nightmares.
Sakura subconsciously turned around and ran, but the touch in her hand made her lower her head. The hairpin was held in her hand.
It was still glowing, a soft light that was not blinding. Sakura remembered the name.
She took a deep breath.
"Gaia!"
"Yeah, I heard you. I found you. You're here."
The next second, the light in the hairpin shone brightly, and Sakura felt a gentle force pushing her away.
She took a step back, and when she came to her senses, she found that she was still in the room and had not left.
Tomoyo was there too, but Ling was missing.
"Reiya, she..."
"They are fighting now," Zhishi said. She sat on the bed and looked out the window. "I feel a little unwilling. I can only watch every time. Sometimes I can't even see."
"When we are afraid or in danger, we just need to pray and she will always appear. But what should Gaia do when she is in danger?"
Sakura finally came to her senses and realized what had happened before.
"Reiya, is she Gaia?"
Zhishi didn't answer, and there was no need to answer.
She still remembered how Gaia was covered in wounds when she fought Barabas. Even the light was so dim that she could hardly see it, but she still stood in front of the super beast.
In the past, the battles of the Ultra Warriors were always limited to three minutes.
But only Gaia, she will keep fighting, as long as the enemy who hurts mankind is not eliminated, she will never disappear. Standing on the battlefield, blocking everyone.
In the suburbs of Higashiyamato City, there is an artificial lake formed by quarrying.
The artificial lake is not wide, hidden in a mountain bay. Because it is made of quarried rocks, the lake is very deep in some places, with the deepest point being nearly 200 meters.
Several tributaries extend out from the lake, which prevents it from becoming stagnant water. The lake water circulates all year round, keeping the water blue and clear. Every summer, this place is a holy place for many people to escape the heat.
Every summer, people come here to swim in the cool water. But the water is colder than expected. If you get cramps and drown, the water is too deep for even the rescue team to salvage you.
There are several signs prohibiting swimming by the lake, but people still drown every year.
Fortunately, the lake breeze is too cold in winter and there are few tourists here, so there was no crowd of people running away when the super beast appeared. The super beast walked out of the lake step by step, and it felt the child that attracted it. The taste of fear is so tempting.
But it didn't expect that the person who appeared before its eyes was not the child in its dream, but Gaia!
The super beast wanted to dive into the lake, but Gaia grabbed its lower jaw and cheeks and threw it to the shore like a big blue carp.
A super beast born from fear. Ling doesn't know if this is a super beast left on Earth by the Yawa people, but it can become stronger because of human fear.
"Did he hide in this lake because he absorbed the fear of the drowned people before they died?"
This seemingly clear and transparent lake bottom also conceals a lot of corpses that have not floated up but are buried in the mud. For the super beasts, this is indeed a comfortable hiding place.
But how could the fear of the dead be as delicious as the fear of a living child? So when the child grew up enough to leave the lake, it took up residence in the child's heart.
It has matured enough to interfere with reality and cause even more terrible damage. What's more terrible is that even if it is attacked, humans cannot find the source of the attacker.
It once attacked a passenger plane, drawing fear from the passengers as they died, but human investigations concluded that the crash was caused by the pilot's error.
Existing between reality and illusion, it should not be so easy to be discovered. The TAC team's radar is ineffective, and no human technological means can observe it.
But now, Gaia has found it.
Chapter 218 The Magic of Friendship
There were no people around who needed to be evacuated, so Gaia didn't need to restrain her hands and feet.
She stood on the earth, supported by an endless supply of power, as if she would not fail as long as she was on this planet.
Ling also knew that this was just an illusion, but at this moment she let this feeling go.
Super beasts that intimidate weak children are always disgusting.
No, that's not the case. The real reason is that this super beast frightened Sakura. Ultraman should treat all humans equally, and Gaia is even more so. She knows it, but she can't do it.
She is not a god who treats everything equally, but just an ordinary person with her own joys, sorrows, anger and happiness, and Ling never denies this. So when her friends are bullied, she will always be more angry than the sympathy she has for strangers.
Gaia's punch was a bit heavier than usual, and even contained explosive energy. This was not a skill, but a subconscious gathering of energy that exploded in an instant.
A fist weighing tens of thousands of tons, with the impact of an explosion, smashed into the super beast, and a dull sound was heard. If it were rock, it would have been blown apart long ago, and even steel would have been penetrated.
But Gaia soon realized that such an attack would cause limited damage to the super beast.
The skin of the super beast was a bit like the body of a fish, slippery and hard to bear force. Most of her strength was offset, whether it was punching or kicking, the result was almost the same.
The super beast was somewhat pleased with itself and let out a terrifying laugh.
The sound of "Grigora" is not an accurate term, because it is a sound that is difficult to imitate with human vocal cords, and it is even more difficult to describe with words. It is like a playful laugh, full of malice.
No matter how heavy the punch was, it would only be met with malicious laughter.
That sound was so disturbing that I wanted to block its mouth, rip its throat open, and break its vocal cords...
Wait, Ling also suddenly realized that her mentality was not right. Her brain was a little confused, and she didn't know when she started to be filled with the desire to destroy.
She stepped back a few steps, trying to be quiet, but the voice of the super beast was still lingering in her ears, and Ling felt for the first time that having too good hearing was not a good thing.
Gaia retreated, but the super beast pressed forward.
"I said, be quiet, it's so noisy!"
Gaia grabbed the monster's neck with one hand and the monster's back with the other, trying to lift it up and throw it to the ground.
The weight of a super beast is about 2 to tons, which is not a problem for Gaia. Gaia's arm strength can even lift a giant of tons. If it evolves to V form, the power it can exert will increase several times, reaching an extremely exaggerated level.
So much so that in its highest form, it can even lift the degenerate matter of a neutron star.
But at this moment, Gaia found that she couldn't find a foothold for her fingers. The super beast's skin was covered with greasy mucus, and its skin was covered with warts, disgusting and slippery. Gaia slid away with a little force, like a loach, and was completely unable to exert any strength.
The Super Beast's laughter became even more piercing, as if it was deliberately trying to provoke others.
At a certain moment, the super beast's tail swung around Gaia's neck.
Ling was not aware of the pain of having her neck wrapped because she had already felt fear in her heart.
That was not her own emotion.
The fear of death, those desperate drowning people, were still living a normal life before that moment came, without any warning, death came in an instant. The suffocating lake water was so cold that it seemed to freeze the soul, the astonishment and disbelief turned into the final despair, and then everything returned to darkness.
Those emotions that did not belong to Lingye were poured into her heart and occupied all her thinking instincts.
Not only the drowned, but also many other fears belonging to different human beings. These emotions turned into a torrent and rushed into her heart in an instant.
This super beast turns the fear it normally devours into the most terrifying weapon.
At this moment, Ling also saw the fear of human beings, many people. Most of them she didn't know, but she saw the darkest depths of their hearts.
Some are about life and death, some are just trivial matters.
But what others see as trivial matters can pile up into the deepest nightmare in a child’s heart.
Xuefu was afraid of endless bed-wetting and being laughed at for a long time. He was lonely and alienated, and he was always alone. Every morning when he woke up and realized that the bed was wet, he even began to hate himself. From the initial shame to the uncontrollable despair. Compared with the fear of life and death in an instant, the long-term despair is what Chao Beast likes more.
Lingye also saw Sakura's fear, and this fear actually came from her 'little concealment'.
Sakura always thought Ling was also a magical girl. They became friends and used magic to find her mother in heaven.
But the magic in the story always fails at midnight, just like Cinderella, who will become nothing again. Will her magic also end at midnight?
Just like the matches that the little match girl lit, all the beautiful things only last for a moment when the fire is lit. When the fire goes out, her mother will disappear, and her friends like Tomoyo and Reiya will also leave her.
Because she had experienced happiness, she became more and more afraid of what it was like to have nothing.
Then, Ling also saw his own fear.
Even if she transformed into Gaia, even if she evolved to V2, Supreme, even if she unlocked more and more medals, but the strength of her power could not make her heart strong.
The TAC team's plane flew over the artificial lake.
This super beast was hiding in the mezzanine of illusion, but when it was fighting Gaia, it came to reality and was captured by the radar of the TAC team.
The Eagle, Airo, and Universe, the TAC team deployed all their air power. But the scene they saw was Gaia curled up, being strangled by the Ultra Beast and dragged on the ground.
"Gaia lost?"
"Impossible! Gaia will not lose!" Yamanaka roared.
Yoshimura didn't expect that Yamanaka, who was sitting with him in the Universe, would be so excited. The voice even scared him.
"But you see, Gaia can't stand up anymore."
"Even if this is the case, Gaia will not lose!"
A rocket was launched from the mountain, and the fire exploded on the head of the super beast. The weapons that could decide the victory on the battlefield of humans were just large fireworks in front of the super beast.
Sensing these annoying "flies", the super beast sprayed white water arrows from its mouth. Yoshimura held the steering rod tightly, allowing the Universe to narrowly avoid it.
Water arrows hit the mountain, and rocks rolled down.
"So dangerous, is that a high-pressure water gun?"
If the Universe was hit by a high-pressure water gun that could knock down a mountain, it would probably disintegrate in mid-air on the spot.
"It's too dangerous. We need to stay away from it."
"Asshole, isn't it important to support Gaia now?"