chsdbacks Chapter 231 Extreme Environmental Protection: A Conspiracy to Cleanse the Earth!
Chapter 231 Extreme Environmental Protection: A Conspiracy to Cleanse the Earth!
A week passed in the blink of an eye amidst the frantic calls for updates and heated discussions from countless tokusatsu fans across the internet.
Since the appearance of the bizarre giant eyeball monster in the previous episode, the plot of "Ultraman Gaia" has become increasingly unpredictable.
Viewers increasingly felt that Gaia's core contained a grand science fiction setting and philosophical speculation.
This is different from previous Ultraman Tiga, Seven OV, and Dyna.
Gu Nan uses a forward-thinking perspective to explore profound questions about the laws governing humanity's future survival, all within the framework of a tokusatsu drama.
Friday night at 8 PM.
After the brief but stirring symphonic opening theme, the title of the seventh episode slowly appeared—"The Cleansing of the Earth"!
The main feature begins.
In a coastal city.
The once peaceful high-rise building was suddenly pierced by an unknown object!
Then, the scene shifted.
The camera slowly zooms in on the command room of the XIG air base.
The room was simply furnished, with powerful and vigorous traditional Xia Dynasty calligraphy hanging on the walls, a stark contrast to the cold, high-tech command center outside.
This stark contrast makes the Stone Chamber Commander, who bears the fate of all humanity, appear even more unfathomable.
Staff Officer Ye Qian sat on the sofa, his brows furrowed, his expression grave, holding a steaming cup of tea in his hand, yet he hesitated to drink it.
"It's strange..."
Staff Officer Ye Qian broke the oppressive silence in a deep voice, "Just as the quantum computer on Alchemy Star predicted, strange things keep happening. Although XIG was created specifically for this time, to be honest, I can't figure it out."
He put down his teacup, his gaze lingering on the stone chamber behind him: "So many brilliant geniuses were born in one fell swoop, and almost at the same time, so many terrifying monsters appeared in the world... If everything in this world is maintained in a delicate balance..."
The unresolved profound meaning struck like a thunderbolt, instantly sending chills down the spines of viewers in front of the screen.
[He means that the sudden emergence of geniuses like the Alchemy Stars within the human ranks disrupted Earth's balance, thus attracting those devastating monsters?!]
[Causal weapon? 】
[Isn't that a bit odd? A genius born to address a crisis has ironically become the cause of the crisis? That's putting the cause before the effect.]
[If this prophecy is wrong, isn't GUARD just an unruly super monster?]
To some extent, that's true, but this show is about Gaia, so we can still watch Alchemy Star with peace of mind, right?
Commander Shi listened quietly to Staff Officer Ye Qian's sharp questions, calmly poured himself a cup of tea, and asked in a completely unfazed tone, "Are you saying that the existence of the Alchemy Star lured the monster out?"
"They made a remarkable contribution to the establishment of the Guardians," Advisor Ye Qian sighed. "I know they are absolutely indispensable to humanity today. But this feeling of relying on them while simultaneously having an uncontrollable suspicion of them... it's truly contradictory."
Shi Shi turned around, downed his tea in one gulp, his gaze clear and resolute: "A mere commander like myself cannot fathom the cause and effect involved. For now, we can only defeat the enemy before us with a detached attitude."
"As for the meaning and the answer, as long as we work hard, we believe we will find it after we win."
Indeed, if you can't figure it out, don't dwell on it; crushing the enemy is the only way to go.
[That's normal. If he also started fighting amongst himself, the world would be doomed!]
Staff officers consider political balance, while commanders consider survival and victory.
The scene shifts, instantly breaking the heavy and oppressive atmosphere of philosophical discussion.
Inside the XIG base's rest area, Koga Mu was holding a complex remote control device, her face beaming with excitement: "Great! If we install this on the fighter jet, we can operate it remotely automatically! We won't have to do it manually every time anymore!"
With a loud bang, the room door was violently pushed open.
Correspondent Li Muzi stormed in and started rummaging through my dream's clothes basket.
I was stunned for a moment, then questioned, "What's wrong with you all of a sudden?!"
Li Muzi was clutching a very familiar piece of clothing in her hand—it was her underwear.
"What are you going to do with my clothes!"
Li Muzi was practically going crazy.
It turns out that when Meng was doing laundry, she carelessly put her clothes into her own laundry basket and brazenly brought them back to her room.
Looking at my messy room, Li Muzi was furious.
Looking at the room, which resembled a place swept by a typhoon, Li Muzi launched into a tirade: "Your room is such a mess! Couldn't you at least tidy it up a bit?! How can you live in a place like this?!"
But I dream that I can remember the exact location of any item, which is called "order in chaos"!
I dreamt I was rummaging through a pile of junk, defiantly retorting, "What do you know! Don't touch anything! My messiness has a profound purpose! I know exactly where everything is!"
Suddenly, my dream communicator rang again.
At this moment, I awkwardly changed the subject while hurriedly rummaging through the room, which resembled a garbage dump, for a communicator.
[Stereotypes of STEM men]
As long as I don't tidy up, I know where everything is.
My dream is simply another version of myself!
[Mu Zi practically barged into her male best friend's room this time, didn't she?]
During the joyful interaction, I finally found the communicator.
Director Di Cheng's serious and urgent voice rang out: "I dreamt that a meteorite fell in Jin Port. Immediately deploy the EX to investigate!"
"Understood!" I dreamt, my playful smile vanished, and I picked up the modified remote control system "Par" and rushed toward the hangar.
Braving the severe typhoon weather, I dreamt of arriving at the Jin Port site, which was under strict blockade by GUARD ground forces.
He met with the communications officer at Geo base.
The "meteorite" was huge and had a smooth surface, with an eerie bronze color and ancient patterns, making it look nothing like a natural cosmic object.
Just as the two were discussing transporting it back to the base for analysis, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in my mind.
He followed the direction and looked towards a secluded open space in the distance.
A man dressed in a black leather jacket, with a cold and aloof look in his eyes, stood there quietly.
Fujimiya!
Without hesitation, I left Mr. Kou behind and quickly chased after him.
Under the blazing sun, Fujimiya stood with his hands in his pockets, looking down at the panting Gamu.
"Fujimiya?"
Fujimiya sneered, a mocking smile playing on his lips: "I thought after everything you've been through, you'd have improved a bit. But it seems you're still playing these childish games with your old friends?"
I, being a straightforward person, asked loudly with a hint of anger, "And what about you? Since you also received the light of Earth, why don't you appear and join forces with us to save the Earth?"
Fujimiya's mockery gradually faded, his deep gaze fixed on Gamu, and he uttered the crucial line that would change the entire course of the series:
"It's not enough to just focus on defeating the enemy in front of you."
He looked at me, Dream, as if I were an innocent child: "We are the chosen ones, and we should use our power more effectively. Wake up, Dream. Stop being blinded by human narrow-mindedness."
With that, Fujimiya turned and walked away gracefully. Accompanied by a strange spatial distortion, his figure vanished into thin air in broad daylight!
[Holy crap! This king of cool makes his entrance with his own background music!]
What does this mean? What does it mean that simply defeating the enemy in front of you is not enough?
[Does Fujimiya think the defense force's tactics are too rudimentary?]
[Riddler, can't you just die already? Why do you have to pretend? Fujimiya, aren't you human?]
I dreamt that my brow was furrowed, lost in deep thought.
But knowing that the mystery of the giant meteorite in Tsingang was still waiting to be solved, he followed the communications officer and traveled to the Geo base in an advanced deep-sea submersible.
The Geo base in the summer of 2030 was set on the deep seabed of East China Sea by Light Chaser Animation!
A massive underwater base with a cyberpunk style is spectacularly presented to the audience, showcasing the most advanced technological power of mankind.
"The Geo base is the brain center of Earth's defense, possessing the world's most advanced scientific analysis capabilities," the communications officer proudly introduced.
The analysis results were unexpected: it was not Earth material at all, but there were no signs of it being burned by the high temperature when it passed through the atmosphere!
"If it didn't come from space, then where did it come from?"
The researcher muttered as he looked at the report, "It's strange that it was blown in by the typhoon..."
These words were like lightning, instantly cleaving through the fog in my dreamlike mind!
"Blown here..." I immediately rushed to the control panel, my hands moving like blurs across the virtual keyboard. "Connect the hole created by the building to the crater in the ground, and draw a precise parabola based on atmospheric altitude..."
A clear 3D parabolic trajectory was generated on the screen. However, at the end was an empty sea, with nothing unusual.
Just as I was racking my brains trying to figure it out, Li Muzi anxiously interrupted with a call: "I'm Meng! That huge typhoon is heading in your direction, it's too dangerous, come back quickly!"
"A typhoon?!"
I stared intently at the weather map. The massive, terrifying typhoon's trajectory intersected perfectly with the predicted parabola!
Without any hesitation, I piloted the EX, heading straight into the typhoon-affected sea area against the raging air currents.
As Typhoon EX struggled to approach the eye of the typhoon, a scene defying meteorological common sense unfolded. A normal typhoon eye should be calm and clear, but what appeared before us was a massive vortex completely shrouded in dense black clouds, constantly releasing terrifying energy!
"A thick, dark cloud is looming beneath the typhoon's eye, generating an enormous amount of unusual energy!" Imeng reported in shock. "The radar is being severely jammed; we don't know what's inside!"
At that moment, a communication from Daniel, the chairman of Alchemy Star, who was far away overseas, forcibly interrupted the XIG main screen.
"My dream, the atmospheric samples you collected, after meticulous analysis by experts, have yielded astonishing results!" Daniel's expression was grave, his voice trembling slightly. "The atmosphere passing through the eye of this typhoon... the levels of harmful components such as fluorocarbons and methane... have all decreased dramatically!"
Upon hearing this, everyone—from the dream in the air, the stone chamber in the base, to the audience in front of the screen—was instantly stunned.
Daniel took a deep breath and dropped a terrifying conclusion: "If this typhoon continues, in another six months... the entire Earth's atmosphere will be completely purified!"
Dead silence.
A deathly silence fell over the communication channel.
[Holy crap?! What did I just hear?!]
[Purifies the air?! This isn't a monster, it's a giant eco-friendly air purifier!]
[Are the machines in the eye of the typhoon here to give the Earth a bath?!]
[It's a plot twist!]
Are all the culprits of the greenhouse effect gone?
This machine is a savior for humanity!
Mother Earth is cleaning up the trash herself!
However, the power of nature is violent and merciless.
Weather satellites are brutally revealing that the typhoon is like a greedy creature, rapidly intensifying at an alarming rate.
"Commander, the typhoon's wind speed is still increasing!"
Li Muzi reported anxiously, "At this rate, the core area of East China will be completely within the storm's reach in about 3 hours! All city buildings will be razed to the ground!"
The alluring price of purifying Earth's atmosphere is the complete destruction of human cities and countless lives along the way!
This is already a cruel and difficult philosophical and ethical dilemma!
Destroying cities to protect them will only lead to continued pollution of the Earth; allowing them to be left to their own devices to purify the Earth will result in widespread devastation in East China.