stjorthotic Chapter 233 A 46 Billion-Year-Old Soul, An Outrageous Holy Mother
Chapter 233 A 46 Billion-Year-Old Soul, An Outrageous Holy Mother
(Some parts have been modified; after all, if you don't have high blood pressure after reading the original, you're considered mentally stable...)
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
At 8 p.m. on Friday, countless viewers tuned in to their screens.
As the stirring symphonic opening theme ended, the title of the eighth episode slowly appeared against the night background—"The Souls of 4.6 Billion Years Ago"!
The main feature begins.
The scene shifts to a bustling city street.
On a huge outdoor electronic screen, Jing Ling from KCB TV was conducting a special report program with a serious expression.
"Recently, monster disasters have struck one after another, and the prophecy about the Alchemy Star summoning the Root of Destruction is no longer a secret. What exactly are those monsters' goals? Will Earth face destruction as prophesied? And what does the future hold for humanity?"
Jing Ling's words struck at the heart of every ordinary person's fear, but then, the big screen showed Ultraman Gaia in battle.
"However, we still hold onto a glimmer of hope! That is the mysterious giant of light, Ultraman who would never harm us humans and would defeat monsters for us!"
[KBC has started streaming? Is it true?]
[Gaia, Agul: The Demon King's two guardians are here! If you can't kill them with one punch, you're doomed!]
This can be seen as KCB helping to vindicate Ultraman!
[Nonsense, the defense force is constantly being treated like a savior, relying entirely on Ultraman C. How could they not treat him like a savior?]
Where does humanity's future lie? In Gu Laozei's script!
The scene then shifts to a paleontology laboratory located in an extremely remote suburb.
Although the television in the laboratory was on, playing a report about Jing Ling, a woman in a white coat with a cold expression—Dr. Asano—was not listening at all.
She was staring intently at the ancient fossils under the microscope.
Just then, a strange, muffled roar, seemingly spanning millions of years, suddenly came from outside the laboratory!
But the roar did not frighten Dr. Asano; instead, a fervent glint flashed in her eyes, as if she had been waiting for this sound.
The scene then shifts to a dam.
Early morning patrol workers were horrified to discover a disgusting monster, over forty meters tall and resembling a combination of a sea anemone and intestines, lying on the edge of the dam!
The message was instantly transmitted back to the XIG air base in 2030.
Director Di Cheng frowned as he stared at the enormous, writhing soft-bodied creature on the screen. "This is troublesome. If the fighting starts at the dam, it could severely pollute the city's water supply. We must send someone to conduct an on-site investigation as soon as possible!"
Just as Commander Ishimura was about to give the order, the main network screen of the entire air base suddenly flickered violently, and a piercing electronic sound forcibly cut into the highest-level communication channel!
"Don't get close to it! And don't let anyone realize it's there!" A woman's voice echoed in the command room.
[Holy crap! XIG's network has been hacked again?!]
Is this firewall made of paper? It was hacked by my dream in the first episode, and now anyone can just jump out and hack it?
[This can't hold up any longer; the entire cybersecurity department of the defense force can resign!]
Throughout history, which Olympic defense base wasn't its own backyard?
Who is this woman? Why is she so arrogant?
I immediately recognized the voice; it belonged to Asano, a member of Alchemy Star.
In order not to provoke that unknown life form, I decisively applied for a solo operation, driving the off-road vehicle from the Geo base straight to Asano Mirai's laboratory.
When I arrived at the laboratory entrance, I was blocked by an invisible energy field wall.
After an extremely awkward exchange of words, Dr. Asano impatiently turned off the defensive barrier.
Faced with my questioning, Dr. Asano gave an extremely cold answer that everyone found unbelievable.
"That creature is called Anemos. Strictly speaking, it doesn't belong to any species currently existing on Earth. I discovered it in the Cambrian strata of the Xia Kingdom continent, and it has long been extinct."
"It is the materialized remnant of a past being, a manifestation of its lingering thoughts. Simply put, in the microscopic world of quantum mechanics, consciousness and matter are relative. If the number of people aware of its existence increases, the fluctuations in the consciousness of those observers will become the energy that completely revives it!"
As I dreamt of this theory being relayed back to the air base, Commander Ishimura, though completely bewildered, still astutely ordered a news blackout, determined to prevent the public from knowing about the dam monster's existence!
What are you babbling about?! Go cook me two dishes!
Schrödinger's monster?! It doesn't exist if you don't look at it, but it materializes when you do?
[Still using quantum mechanics to explain the idealistic monster]
This is terrifying! The fear and attention of all humankind is the monster's energy source!
However, Murphy's Law is always at work.
The defense team wanted to keep it a secret, but KCB TV, like a shark that had smelled blood, had already sent out a news van!
Mei Ze, who was leading the team, was extremely shrewd. When the Geo base guards used the lame excuse of "volcanic gas," he smiled and agreed to retreat on the surface. Then, he took Jing Ling and photographer Lun Wen and sneaked in on a hidden mountain path!
When they climbed to the top of the hill and saw the giant Anemos, Meze did not hesitate at all. He immediately had Lunwen set up the satellite dish and forcibly started a live broadcast!
"Ladies and gentlemen! We have discovered an extremely large, unknown creature at the dam!"
As the live broadcast signal came in, tens of millions of viewers across the country instantly saw Anamos on their television screens!
With the frenzied influx of a massive "observer consciousness," Anamos, which had previously been in a semi-transparent quantum state, instantly solidified! It was fully awakened!
"roar--!"
The materialized Anemos suddenly sprayed out an extremely thick purple slime, instantly staining the entire river of the dam red!
[These KCB guys really love making a scene!]
[Oh no! Schrödinger's box has been forcibly opened by these reporters!]
[This teammate is such a terrible player, they actually revived the monster!]
Sigh, I can understand. After all, how can the plot progress without physical manifestations?
[They'd risk their lives for ratings!]
[Rascal Does Not Dream of Hyperspace Symbiotic Monsters?]
In the laboratory, I was shocked to see the live broadcast on TV and immediately pulled Asano to drive to the dam.
On the bus, I was extremely angry and believed that it was the previous monster Gob, the Destruction Bringer, that had awakened these souls of the quantum realm.
But Asano retorted with extreme indifference.
"Every tens of millions of years, Earth experiences a mass extinction event. Anemos is a creature eliminated by Earth. Its appearance is a way of asking us to hear its lament of being unloved by the planet!"
Just then, the test results from Geo base were transmitted to my dream's communicator.
The purple river water wasn't poison, but rather a kind of alarm hormone!
Anemos is summoning its symbiotic companion, Crabga!
Sure enough, in the distance, another enormous crustacean monster was riding the waves, rushing frantically toward the dam!
Two ancient overlords from hundreds of millions of years ago are attempting to achieve symbiosis today and evolve into the perfect ultimate life form!
I immediately opened the communicator: "Commander! We absolutely cannot let them meet! Once they complete symbiosis, the consequences will be unimaginable!"
However, an extremely explosive scene occurred that instantly caused all viewers to experience high blood pressure!
Asano Mirai, who was sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly went crazy. She lunged forward, snatched the communicator from Imu's hand, and threw it away with tremendous force!
Communication was interrupted instantly!
The people in the Ishimura group on the other side were surprised to find that communication had been cut off, but they still quickly dispatched people.
On the other side, I looked at this woman in utter shock.
Asano Mirai, her eyes red, shouted in an extremely arrogant and self-righteous, saintly tone, "My dream! You don't understand! They were just not chosen by Earth! Do you know how tragic their situation is?! We humans have absolutely no right to arbitrarily destroy them! Let them coexist; only I understand their suffering!"
Dead silence.
An eerily silent atmosphere descended both on and off the screen.
Immediately afterwards, in the extremely oppressive carriage, a crisp and loud slap rang out!
"Smack—!!!"
Without any hesitation, I retaliated with a powerful slap across Asano's face!
The slap was so powerful that it knocked the female PhD student to the ground.
At that moment, the entire internet erupted in a frenzy of comments!
Holy crap! Well done!!!
[Personality Correction Palm!]
That slap felt like it took my soul to leave my body, it was so damn satisfying!
This is how you should deal with such an absolute saint!
【I've disliked that damn thing of hers for ages! Smashing the communicator? Are you out of your mind?!】
[The stubborn scientist's classic saying: Only he understands monsters.]
Humans come first, then we consider other species!
Asano Mirai covered her swollen cheek, looking at the usually gentle Takaga Yume with utter disbelief.
"Wake up!"
My eyes blazed with fury as I pointed at the distant city and roared in utter rage, "I am a human! You are a human too! You are not some merciful god!"
"Its tragedy? It was eliminated 600 million years ago! That was natural selection hundreds of millions of years ago! What does that have to do with modern humans?! If they were to merge, their first meal would be millions of living people in nearby cities! You're willing to drag millions of modern humans down with you just for the so-called 'grievances' of two ancient creatures?!"
I grabbed Asano by the collar and angrily rebuked him, emphasizing each word: "We certainly don't have the right to exterminate them, but we have every reason to fight back in order to survive! Don't use the lives of all humanity to pay for your cheap sympathy!"
After saying that, I pushed her away very roughly and ran wildly towards the monster without looking back.
Asano was left trembling in the car, his worldview shattered.