Ultraman: The Serious Talents Become Light

Chapter 693: Saibu, the God of Earth and Fire

who is it?
After the prince came out of the princess's room, this question kept echoing in his mind.

Through the princess's diary, he clearly knew that there was definitely something underground on this planet, but he didn't know why his mother was trying to stop the princess.

"Could it be that the mother killed the princess?"

"Impossible! The entire Pedan belongs to her. She doesn't have to do that. What secrets are hidden underground?"

The prince stopped and looked up at a tall building not far away. It was the only special building with a wooden structure in this steel city - the library.

The color of the library is also unique. In the large expanse of silver, the red color looks like a ball of fire.

drop!
I swiped my ID card and entered the library.

The prince heard a voice saying "Come in", and then he stepped inside. He immediately found the library assistant robot and said, "Help me find the last book the princess has read before."

The assistant robot paused for a moment, and the text on the screen scrolled: "The last book the princess read was found - "The History of Pedan."

The prince frowned.

"History of Pedan" is something that every Pedanian has learned, but the history learned in the classroom is a version that cannot be simplified any further.

The complete History of Pedan consists of several thousand volumes, each of which contains a great deal of detail.

How can he check this?
He thought about it, then headed to the library's surveillance room.

He pushed open the door and saw two surveillance personnel, one in a daze and the other sleeping.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the two surveillance personnel were immediately awakened. They looked back and were so scared that they didn't know what to do.

The prince frowned, but he did not question the situation. After all, it was normal to feel sleepy when facing dozens of screens all day.

"Help me find the surveillance footage of the princess' last visit to the library, and find the last book she read."

"Your Highness, this..."

The two surveillance personnel did not take action immediately. After all, this involved the princess and the prince. If this matter was not reported to their superiors, if something happened later, it would very likely implicate both of them.

"Check it quickly, this matter involves the safety of the entire Pedan." The prince's expression was extremely serious and his tone was very heavy.

The two looked at each other, and finally had no choice but to search according to the prince's instructions.

Soon, the two found the surveillance video of the last time the princess appeared, and the time shown on the video was five days ago.

Her Royal Highness stayed in the library for a long time, looking through many books, but the prince came with a purpose: "To find the last book the princess read."

Under the operation of the monitoring personnel, the picture was accelerated.

After a few minutes, it stopped.

The prince pointed to the room where the princess was in the picture. There was no one else in the room. He asked, "Where is this place?"

After careful identification, the surveillance officer replied, "Your Highness, this is the room where the original copy of the History of Pedan is located."

As a work covering the history of Pedan, both in terms of quantity and value, it requires a separate secret room to be preserved.

The prince nodded. This was consistent with what the auxiliary robot had found. He said, "Zoom in the picture and see which volume it is."

The library's surveillance footage is very clear, or rather, the entire Pedan's surveillance is very clear. Their technological level does not allow unclear situations to occur.

【2100】

This is the number shown on the screen.

After getting the clue, the prince hurried to the room of Pedanshi.

After going through identity authentication, password authentication, and various other authentications, he finally walked into the room.

"Volume 2100. It seems she has been searching for it for a long time."

The prince followed the marks on the bookshelf and after a while found the 2100th volume among the thousands of books.

This book is very thick.

To be precise, each volume is very thick.

The prince could feel the weight of history in his hands even though the book weighed several kilograms. "How can I check this?"

After thinking about it, he changed the shape of his smart watch into a pair of glasses.

"Connect to the library database."

[Connecting——Connection completed! ]

"Take a photo and check."

He held the book in his hand up to his glasses.

[Photographing and checking——"History of Pedan" Volume 2100. 】

The prince fell into deep thought.

Because the time period of Volume 2100 is too long away from the prince's current era, he doesn't know a lot of things, so he can only infer and screen based on the few clues.

The “it” in The Princess Diaries is definitely not a person, and most of the history surrounding the character can be removed.

In addition, Qingyun seemed extremely shocked by what was contained in the princess's notes, which proved that "it" might be a great invention, or some extremely special inanimate object.

Something like this will definitely leave a significant mark in the history books, so "it" should occupy a considerable amount of space.

At the same time, in the princess's notes, there are a large number of events related to nouns such as underground and underground.

After thinking carefully about the wording, the prince gave the order.

"Remove the content from history textbooks, remove the history of people other than inventors, and use the key words - great inventions, special discoveries, underground, subterranean..."

The filtering and searching took only a minute, and then I saw a long filtered history.

The rest he could only rely on himself to search carefully.

After a full hour, the prince stopped.

During this period, he read more than 100 histories of scientists and discovered a lot, but he did not find any differences.

"How on earth did she find it out?"

"What was going through her mind?"

The prince had a splitting headache. He really couldn't bear to read it anymore. It was too difficult to find the key points in such a large amount of history.

He couldn't help but think about the emotions the princess felt at the time, and began to put himself in her shoes to imagine the situation the princess was facing at the time.

"Monsters are moving..."

"Underground incident..."

"it……"

"Melting—hot, yes, burning!"

Suddenly, the prince found the key words, and he suddenly remembered the reason why the princess started investigating in the first place, which was the melting of the city.

"Continue to filter under the existing conditions, the key words are melting, burning, temperature..."

This time, the prince found the answer he wanted, which was a sentence, the last words left by the great scientist who invented the city barrier.

[The barrier is the way to salvation, but it can never achieve the ultimate salvation. We must solve the uncontrollable core of "Sebu", otherwise one day, Pedan will burn again! ]

In the Pedan civilization, Saibu is the legendary god of earth and fire. He created the world, propped up a fertile land from the abyss, and brought fire, a symbol of civilization, to Pedan.

If his existence were on Earth, it would probably be the same as that of earth gods like Gaia and Hou Tu, and also similar to gods like Prometheus.

"Finally found."

"Query, Seb!"

........................

Time passed, the eve of the banquet.

The princess, tired after a day's work, returned to her room. After washing up, she came to her closet naked.

Among the monotonous silver dresses, there is a touch of fiery red.

"Sebu..."

The princess stroked her red skirt and murmured to herself.

Generally speaking, when attending important banquets, the Pedan people would wear the most classic silver clothing, with some other colors as embellishments at most.

From the beginning to the end, few people have triggered this "regulation".

But today, Princess Pedan really wanted to wear this red dress. After looking up the history of Pedan, she felt that the color that best represents Pedan should be - red.

Boom boom boom!
The maid's voice came from outside the door: "Your Highness, the Queen is calling you over."

"understood."

After a moment, the blooming rose pushed open the door.

……

The Palace of Pedan.

It was as quiet as ever here. Even though countless distinguished guests had arrived, there was no change in the room in the deepest part of the palace.

"Your Majesty, the princess has arrived."

"Let her in."

After the queen said this, the room fell silent again.

Seeing the princess coming, the queen raised her head and asked: "Have you found out?"

Upon hearing this, the princess instantly realized that her recent activities were under the Queen's attention. However, this was normal. In a highly developed technological city, the Queen could know everything instantly.

She said, "I should have found out. Saibu, the legendary god of earth and fire, really exists."

"When I was a kid, I thought the god Saibu was similar to the gods in other races' legends, a product of fantasy, or perhaps some powerful being from the universe. But I never expected that Saibu would actually..."

The queen interrupted the princess and said, "Yes, Sebu, the god of earth and fire, is a man-made god of Pedan, a Kingo Bridge that is difficult to replicate!"

The princess took a deep breath.

Even though she already knew the answer, she still couldn't help but be amazed when she heard the truth of history from her mother's mouth.

She couldn't help but ask, "Mother, is it really as I thought, that those melted cities were caused by Saibu?"

The queen nodded: "Yes, Pedan was born in Cyb and may die in Cyb. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to have such a terrible creation under the technological conditions at that time. However, a miracle happened, and along with the miracle came the abyss."

"The energy emitted by the star core is extremely violent. With the technology at the time, it was impossible to contain the release of energy. So after Cyb went into hibernation, all the Pedan kings collected the hardest substances in the universe to cover Cyb and isolate it from the influence of the star core..."

The princess asked quickly, "Didn't it succeed? How could this happen suddenly?"

"We have successfully extended the life of our civilization for tens of thousands of years, but time is the most terrible blade. The star core energy has corroded Cyborg and also corroded the materials under our feet..."

"About 13000 years ago, the king at that time, my grandfather, discovered this situation and sent people to investigate."

"Star Digging Project!"

This approximate time reminded the princess of a famous project.

This project provides Pedan with nearly endless energy and is Pedan's most formidable driver. But now it seems that Pedan has always been on fire.

Speaking of this horrible fact, the princess felt her feet getting hot. She asked, "Why don't you leave? Change your home planet like Mephilas."

"It's different! The situations of Pedan and Mefilas are completely different. Seventy percent of Pedan's resources are here. We can't abandon our home planet. Once we lose our home planet, we will fall to the level of a first-class civilization."

Although there is an old saying that a lean camel is bigger than a horse, most of this camel’s enemies in the universe tens of thousands of years ago were also camels.

Having lost the most terrible trump card and with the level of civilization falling, at this special time, war is imminent.

There is a high possibility that Pedan will become extinct.

The princess quickly understood this and fell silent.

The Queen said, “Now Pedan is in danger.”

"Then why are you holding a banquet at this time? Could it be that..." The princess' eyes flashed: "Do you want to kill all the powerful people in the universe?"

"I'm not crazy."

The queen was surprised by the princess's train of thought. She said, "In fact, some powerful people have already noticed this. We invited them here this time to discuss how to solve this situation. After all, there are many civilizations that do not want a space war to happen."

"Will it succeed?"

"It's hard."

It was not the queen who spoke, but a clear male voice.

The princess looked in the direction of the voice, and a well-dressed Ultraman appeared at the door at some point.

The princess was shocked: "Ultraman Hikari!"

The person who came was none other than Hikari, the recognized number one scientist in the universe. In the eyes of the Queen, even Zoffy was not as good as Hikari.

Hikari bowed to the princess, "Your Highness."

Then he looked up and said to Queen Pedan, "Your Majesty, this is a very difficult matter. You have suppressed the core of the star for too long, and your grandfather was too reckless. It was really lucky that the planet did not explode at that time."

Queen Pedan was not disappointed, but showed a look of surprise: "It's very difficult, but there is a way?"

As expected, it’s Ultraman Hikari!
Hikari nodded, "Yes, but this method requires sacrifice."

"Sacrifice... is not a big deal!" The Queen said without hesitation: "Sir Hikari, please go ahead."

Hikari nodded: "The star core is the core of Cyb. Restarting Cyb is the easiest and fastest way to consume energy."

The queen frowned, "But the problem now is that Saibu has been corrupted and cannot be controlled."

Hikari: "That's the second point. I have a way to get Seb back under control, but it requires a sacrifice."

"Please say."

"The reason why Cyborg is out of control is that the impact of the star core energy caused its system to become disordered and the control system to be lost, so we need a new control system, but the current situation is that the data cannot be input into Cyborg's body."

The queen and the princess were very worried.

"According to our various discussions, perhaps only the soul can be injected into the body of Saibu to become a new intelligent life. And this soul must have had extremely high authority when it was alive, otherwise it would be impossible to obtain the recognition of Saibu's original system."

"Extremely high authority? That's a euphemism."

The queen smiled bitterly.

The only one who has the authority to obtain Saibu's approval is King Pedan!
So, she has to sacrifice herself.

"It seems that I am the only one who can do this." The Queen stood up and asked, "When can we start?"

Hikaru shook his head: "No, Her Majesty the Queen cannot do this."

"Why?" the Queen was puzzled.

"Because the queen's life is coming to an end, her soul will dissipate with it."

Hearing this, the queen's face changed.

"I'll do it." The princess stood up.

"I'd like to be king for one minute."

The queen clenched her fists, but finally loosened them weakly.

(End of this chapter)