ebonymovies Chapter 257 The Sea of Demonic Light, The Corrupted Lament
Chapter 257 The Sea of Demonic Light, The Corrupted Lament
After the rousing opening theme ended, episode 21 of "Ultraman Gaia," titled "The Sea of Demonic Light," officially began airing.
The screen lit up as dawn broke.
On a ring road built along the coastline, a young couple is driving to watch the sunrise.
It was my roommate Sato and his new girlfriend.
But things didn't go as planned, and the car broke down halfway through the journey.
The girl was clearly impatient; before Sato could fix the car, she simply flagged down a passing car and abandoned him without a second thought.
Sato was left alone on the roadside, cursing and swearing.
Just as he was complaining frantically, a strange blue light suddenly appeared on the distant sea.
"Is that a rocket?"
Sato was stunned.
A huge, luminous spherical object, leaving a long trail, flew directly over his head and headed towards the depths of the distant forest.
The scene shifts, and the sphere lands in the forest.
But a terrible thing happened. Accompanied by the eerie blue light emitted by the sphere, all the birds and beasts within a radius of several miles that had not had time to escape mysteriously collapsed and lost their vital signs within a few seconds.
[Holy crap, everyone died at the start?]
Is this ball some kind of radiation weapon? Why are all the animals dead after it landed?
[Is this another episode with some strange mechanics? The lighting effects look complicated.]
[Sato is really something, he's already had several girlfriends, he's a true role model for us all...]
After it was completely light.
In the restaurant at the XIG air base.
I dreamt I was holding breakfast, looking up at the big screen on the wall, which was showing the morning news.
In the news report, a reporter on __cpLocation is broadcasting from the beach: "I'm now at Baiyan Beach in the island city. Yesterday, many people witnessed the sea suddenly shimmering with a bluish light. Here, a citizen also saw other phenomena..."
The camera cuts to show Sato, the unlucky guy from last night.
"You said you saw it, a very strange ball of light, right?"
reporter asked.
Sato gestured excitedly at the camera, exclaiming, "I saw it! It flew over from over there!"
I almost spat out my food in my dream.
Isn't that my old friend on TV? How come this guy always gets into such absurd situations?
Before he could think any further, the alarm in the command room went off.
Director Di Cheng's communication came through, urgently dispatching him to the scene for investigation.
On the Mir transport plane.
Director Di Cheng looked at the report in his hand, which stated that the oxygen content at the incident site was zero, with a solemn expression.
He asked me about dreams, what circumstances would cause an area to temporarily lose oxygen.
I frowned. "If it happened after a forest fire, that's possible. However, I think it's more likely that other gases were present, causing a temporary lack of oxygen in that area."
As the fighter jets drew closer to the target area, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
"The oxygen is really gone!"
"In an area with a radius of about one kilometer, all the oxygen has disappeared!"
The driver confirmed the truthfulness of his words.
"The engine stops burning, the anti-gravity device converts into thrust, and the speed drops by seventy percent!"
After everyone stabilized the aircraft, they looked through the porthole and saw the sphere emitting a bluish light in the forest ahead.
I quickly analyzed the data: "This is just speculation. I think that glowing sphere is likely related to the disappearance of oxygen. The anoxic zone is gradually expanding, and if this continues, it will be very dangerous."
The commander of the stone chamber made a decisive decision: "Understood. Destroy the sphere!"
[Good heavens, they're just sucking out all the oxygen?! Isn't this specifically designed for humans?!]
[It's not just humans; for any living thing on Earth, the lack of oxygen would be an instant kill.]
[Is this also a consequence of the destruction that brought about the body's destruction? The mechanism is as expected.]
Almost every monster punishes humanity in some way.
The fighter jets immediately opened fire, blasting the sphere in the forest to pieces.
However, the crisis did not end there; instead, it erupted completely.
"Urgent contact from GUARD's South Asia branch!" Li Muzi reported loudly in the command room, "Radar has detected a spherical object in Hyderabad!"
"A sphere has fallen 60 kilometers northeast of the Novosibirsk base! Ground troops are currently en route!"
Georgie quickly followed up with a report, "The Alaska branch has also made an emergency contact!"
Almost simultaneously, people all over the world were attacked by these mysterious orbs of light.
This is absolutely not a random natural phenomenon, but a premeditated global attack.
The mastermind behind this is attempting to use these spheres to completely transform Earth's atmosphere into a world without oxygen.
Upon returning to the base, I immediately conducted tests on the sphere fragments overnight.
He also specially sought out Mr. Yan, a member of the swordfish team who knew the ocean inside and out, for assistance.
"This is indeed the light produced when luciferin is oxidized."
I dreamt as I looked at the analyzed data and said.
Mr. Yan immediately realized: "You mean, it's the same as the light emitted by bioluminescent worms or sea fireflies in the sea?"
"Just as I suspected, that sphere flew out of the sea."
I came to the conclusion in my dream: "I think someone is using it to try to gradually eliminate oxygen on Earth... Anaerobic life forms lurking in some corner of the world have mutated due to some factor and become aggressive creatures."
Since we know it came from the sea, the mastermind must be hiding in the deep sea.
But this is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In order to pinpoint the enemy's exact location, I specifically sought out my friend Sato, who was still at the beach.
"Can you give me the exact time and place?" I asked, holding the instrument.
Sato pointed to the sea: "It's like this, flying over there. And then it glows on the sea."
"From this perspective, there are two seconds... about two seconds. You need to be sure of that."
I carefully confirmed the wind direction and angle in my dream.
After obtaining accurate data, I immediately contacted the air base.
"Georgie, adjust the temperature by two degrees, based on the wind speed data from earlier."
"No problem." Georgie quickly typed on the keyboard, "It's there, at POINT216 S9, the final predicted location."
Master math, physics, and chemistry, and you'll be able to go anywhere in the world without fear!
[Reverse-calculation of coordinates? Oh my god, the Pythagorean theorem!]
Therefore, given a parabola, you can directly calculate where your hometown is.
[Calculating a general location is enough; the next step is for the underwater forces to conduct the search.]
Moreover, using sonar technology to search for living creatures on the seabed is, in some ways, easier than on land where the situation is more complex.
After confirming the coordinates, Commander Ishimura immediately issued city defense orders and dispatched the Swordfish Team to dive into the deep sea for investigation.
Just as the Swordfish team was diving deep, the scene cut back to the surface.
There's a little anecdote here.
While driving away with Sato and the others, I saw a group of strange people.
They were dressed in matching robes, their eyes closed, muttering the same word in a mystical manner:
"The root cause...the root cause...the root cause..."
They are fanatical followers of the Destructionist Psyche.
My roommate, who was in my dream, noticed this group of people and remarked, "There are more and more of them lately. There are also many clubs like this in our university."
"Things are unstable right now. People may appear calm on the surface, but they are actually quite uneasy inside," someone chimed in.
Sato's tone turned heavy and sarcastic: "Who told us to always do such willful and selfish things? I mean, humans. Now, everything we're doing is perhaps the result of our own actions. Maybe, nature will no longer tolerate what we've done."
After hearing this, I frowned and retorted loudly, "Don't talk nonsense!"
This caused the conversation to end unhappily.
In the previous part of the story, I had just received a response from the earth, which strengthened my belief in protecting humanity.
Now, when he hears a friend say that nature is going to abandon humanity, he naturally feels angry.
But in his roommates' eyes, this was just a topic of conversation over tea, and arguing about it was pointless.
……
Meanwhile, in the deep sea, the Swordfish Squad's submarine had already reached the coordinates.
What unfolded before them was not some mysterious alien ruin, but a shocking underwater garbage dump.
Countless rusted oil drums and abandoned chemical pipelines are piled up like mountains.
This place is full of industrial waste produced by human civilization.
And what illuminates these objects in the dark depths of the sea is the countless bioluminescent creatures.
Mr. Yan looked at the radar: "The ancestors of those bioluminescent creatures existed before Earth had oxygen. For those creatures, oxygen was more like poison..."
"How did they survive?"
"After their enzymes combine with oxygen, the oxygen is eliminated. At this point, light is produced due to a chemical reaction."
"Another theory is that the light from bioluminescent organisms is a remnant of the anaerobic world of that era."
"After Earth became an oxygen-rich planet, this was an unavoidable choice."
"Moreover, there are still a few anaerobic organisms that have not evolved and have survived."
With Mr. Yan's explanation, everyone understood the reason.
Why did these creatures suddenly mutate?
"The key lies in the part at POINT216 S9..."
Through the team members, and the conversation between my dream and my roommate, a cruel truth is revealed.
Eight years ago.
In order to save costs, companies in a certain country have been secretly dumping large amounts of factory waste and nuclear pollutants into the sea for a long time.
At the time, the International Institute of Oceanography warned that, due to the influence of ocean currents, these highly toxic wastes would eventually accumulate in a fixed location.
That location is now POINT216 S9.
The accumulation of radiation energy, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the waste caused the microorganisms in this area to mutate and multiply wildly, consuming all the oxygen in the surrounding seawater and creating an oxygen-free space in the deep sea.
Those ancient, anoxic organisms that barely survived under such extreme pollution stimulation underwent terrible mutations.
"The reason they are undergoing various mutations today may be due to the environmental damage caused by us humans."
Several people muttered to themselves, "This is a disaster that humanity brought upon itself."
Just then, from the silt of the deep sea, a terrifying monster with a huge body and deformed appearance slowly stood up.
It is a complex formed by the combination and mutation of countless anaerobic bacteria!
Anaerobic Sea Beast Kadan!
Every organ in its body seems to speak of hatred for the oxygen-rich world and anger at humanity for destroying its home.
Cardan immediately launched a fierce attack on the Swordfish team. The submarine lost its balance under the bombardment of red light bullets, its circuits failed, and the team members were trapped in the dark depths of the sea.
Holy crap! The truth is actually like this!
[This plot... I thought it was the Destruction Summoning Entity causing trouble, but it turns out it's humanity's own doing!]
Eight years ago, pollution was rampant; now nature is coming to collect its debt.
[I see! Isn't this a veiled reference to those unrepentant Babars from a certain island nation?]
Upon receiving the distress signal, I immediately ran to a deserted corner, preparing to transform.
But the moment he took out the Blue Sapphire Cone, a black figure blocked his way.
It is Fujimiya Hiroya.
"Don't make that face."
Fujimiya looked at him coldly. "Are you really planning to defeat that monster this time? I'm just confirming who caused its sudden appearance. You should know the answer to that too."
I clenched my fist and retorted:
"That monster has gone astray in the direction of evolution. To protect the Earth's ecosystem, I have no other choice."
Fujimiya slightly raised his chin, his eyes full of mockery. "How ridiculous. Who is it that has messed up the Earth's ecological environment? You know very well what humans have done to the Earth for so long, don't you? You just don't want to admit it."
Looking at my furrowed brow in my dream.
Fujimiya stepped aside, pointing to the gate: "Go fight, Yume. Fight for the humanity you want to protect. I'll show you something interesting in a moment... I'm no longer hesitant."
After saying that, Fujimiya turned and left.
I dreamt of Fujimiya's retreating figure and took a deep breath.
He knew Fujimiya was right.
This disaster is a consequence of humanity's own actions.
Cardin was merely a victim driven to desperation by human pollution.
However, while the Swordfish team members await rescue on the seabed, innocent lives on the ground are threatened by the light orbs.
As long as monsters are harming humans, he, as the Giant of Light, must stand up.
A flash of red light, and Ultraman Gaia descends into the deep sea.
Despite the immense water pressure, he forcefully lifted the powerless submarine out of the water.
Immediately afterwards, Cardan also surfaced.
As the light of the earth, Gaia was not good at water combat and fell into the mud several times under Kadan's frantic attacks.
Kadan frantically fired orbs of light, trying to kill the giant of light that represented the "aerobic world".
The battle was exceptionally fierce.
Gaia was covered in mud, but he kept getting up.
Fujimiya's harsh yet undeniably true words echoed in my mind:
"You should know that it is humans who are depriving Earth of its resources and harming its ecosystem. Is this really all you want to protect?"
Gaia suddenly exerted her strength, breaking free from Kadan's entanglement.
Red light gathered above his head.
"Even so... I will continue to protect humanity!" I roared in my heart.
The photon ice blade shot out from the sky.
The beam of light mercilessly sliced through Kadan's deformed body.
In the violent explosion, this tragic monster, born of human selfishness and then destroyed by human hands, turned into countless specks of light and disappeared into the ocean it had originally wanted to purify.
Recalling Fujimiya's cold words and the cruel reality
His silhouette appeared incredibly heavy and sorrowful.
The scene freezes, and the end credits song begins to play softly.