Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 551, Section 547: A Tragedy That Never Happened, A Mysterious Time Loop

"Damn it, where am I?"

After traversing a fantastical time-space corridor with the Time-Space Super Beast, Flying Swallow No. 1 suddenly hovered in a completely unfamiliar sky.

Below, the familiar city skyline is gone; there are no highways, no power line towers, and no neon lights.

Only endless primeval mountains and fields, with lush, dense green covering the undulating land, and the air filled with a freshness untouched by industry.

All traces of modern civilization have vanished here.

Feng Yuan recalled Qi Ming's words: "We probably went back to the past with the Time-Space Super Beast."

Shan Zhong tensed up: "Then how are we going to get back?"

Feng Yuan: "The only solution is to find the Time-Space Super Beast and have it take us back."

The two disembarked from Flying Swallow No. 1 and searched for the Time-Space Super Beast in the vicinity.

Before long, a group of villagers on horseback, carrying long sticks and machetes, spotted them and surrounded the two men menacingly.

Seeing the strange clothing of Fengyuan and the people in the mountains, they immediately regarded them as outsiders and were filled with hostility.

"Look at these guys, they might be White Devils!"

"Kill them!"

After he finished speaking, the villagers rushed over shouting and yelling.

In the original drama, members Noriko Mikawa and Yoshimura dared not fight back, and their desperate explanations were completely ignored. In the end, they were captured, tied to a pillar, and almost sacrificed to the heavens.

And here...

When Fengyuan saw a wooden stick coming straight at him, he instinctively dodged to the side and then swept his leg, knocking the villager to the ground, causing him to writhe in pain.

The team members in the mountains were even more direct.

He fired both guns simultaneously, shattering the large cleavers wielded by several ancient people.

This scene terrified all the ancients.

"They really have the power of the devil, run!" The villagers, who had just been so aggressive, immediately mounted their horses and fled in all directions.

The crisis has been temporarily averted.

After they had run far away, Fengyuan thought of something: "Senior in the mountains, will what we're doing change history? Will it cause huge changes in the future?"

Yamanaka was stumped by the question. He scratched his head with the muzzle of his gun: "You mean the butterfly effect? ​​But since we've gotten here, perhaps everything we've done... is part of history?"

He shook his head, seemingly unable to understand this time paradox, and simply said, "Anyway, let's find the Time-Space Super Beast first!"

The two continued their search and, after walking for a while, discovered a fishing village by the sea.

Several children, around ten years old, had caught a turtle and were teasing it with tree branches.

"Hey, don't do that." A young man appeared, gently but firmly stopping them, and carefully released the sea turtle back into the sea.

The mountain dweller exclaimed in surprise: "That young man... is the Urashima Taro that Qi Ming drew! We've gone back to the time when Urashima Taro had just saved the Dragon Palace turtle."

Feng Yuan strode forward: "Excuse me, are you Urashima Taro?"

"I am...and you are?" The Victory Team uniforms worn by Yamanaka and Gen were too out of place in ancient times, leaving Urashima Taro stunned.

Feng Yuan said earnestly, "Listen carefully, if you obtain a seashell in the Dragon Palace, you must never open it, otherwise you will age prematurely, and the person who gave you the seashell will die. Remember that!"

Urashima Taro was completely confused: "What Dragon Palace? What seashell? What are you talking about? Who are you?"

Feng Yuan: "My name is Feng Yuan, he is from the mountains, we are..."

Yamanaka quickly stepped forward to interrupt him, preventing him from continuing.

Yamanaka: "Have you considered the consequences? This will change history!"

Feng Yuan hesitated for a moment: "But Senior Mountain, didn't you just say that everything we did when we went back to the past was part of history?"

In fact, he also felt that this was inappropriate, but the mournful cry of the sea dragon he had heard earlier still seemed to echo in his ears, making him unable to bear it.

He hates tragedies.

In the mountains: "Anyway, I can't say any more. Let's find the Time-Space Super Beast as soon as possible."

After failing to find any trace of the Time-Space Super Beast in the vicinity, the two boarded the Flying Swallow No. 1 again and expanded the search area.

But still nothing was found.

Feng Yuan: "Could the Time-Space Super Beast have already left this time and space?"

The mountain dweller panicked: "Does that mean we're trapped in ancient times and can't go back?"

He seemed to have already foreseen his tragic end, the inscription on his tombstone reading: "Ichiro Yamanaka, born in the 20th century, died in the 18th century, aged -200."

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Ryugu City in the 21st century.

Because the Time-Space Super Beast was driven away by Flying Swallow No. 1, the time-space distortion here has been alleviated.

Although the space-time continuum continues to sporadically transmit items from the past to the present, it no longer poses a direct threat to the safety of citizens.

Holding the sunset flower, Urashima Taro was urgently explaining to Qiming and Huimei:
"Those two people named Fengyuan and Shanzhong were wearing very strange clothes and had strange accents, but everything they said afterwards came true!"

“I really went to the Dragon Palace and got this seashell.”

"Since what they said earlier came true, the consequences of opening the shell are probably not false either. So I kept that in mind and dared not open it."

Hui Mei looked shocked: "So you mean Yamanaka and Hōgen changed history?"

But she soon realized something was wrong. If history had been changed, why was Taiga Ryu still seeking revenge on Urashima Taro?

Only half of it was changed?
Three seconds later, another bolt of lightning struck down from the spacetime boundary, landing near Qi Ming and his companions. A Flying Swallow No. 1 then appeared there.

It was the Flying Swallow No. 1 that Fengyuan and Shanzhong flew.

Qi Ming: “?”

He was just thinking about how to rescue Shan Zhong and Feng Yuan, who were trapped in the past, but he never expected them to come back in this way.

This time-space dimension can not only bring American ocean liners from seventy years ago to the present, but also the Flying Swallow No. 1 from three hundred years ago.

The cabin door opened, and Yamanaka and Fengyuan quickly crawled out.

"What happened? How did we suddenly get here?"

"Have we gone back to the 21st century? That's great!"

They were taken back to the past by the Time-Space Super Beast, and then pulled back to the present by the Golden Dragon's Time-Space Realm.

Huimei: "What a coincidence."

Qi Ming: "Perhaps it's not a coincidence..."

According to his perception, the strongest golden dragon seemed to be absorbing the spacetime vortex of the Great Sea Dragon and the spacetime energy of the Spacetime Super Beast.

A more powerful, more complex, but not yet stable "new spacetime" is taking shape.

The reason why Fengyuan and Shanzhong were able to return may be because everyone unintentionally triggered some kind of rule in this new time-space realm.

Upon seeing Yamanaka and Gen, Urashima Taro excitedly rushed forward: "I remember you!"

Feng Yuan quickly asked, "You didn't open the seashell, did you?"

Urashima Taro firmly replied, "I didn't!"

Looking at the murderous sea dragon not far away, Shan Zhong said, "Then why did the dragon girl you were in love with still die? Otherwise, it wouldn't have come looking for us."

Urashima Taro's hand holding the sunset flower trembled: "What, Otohime is dead?" Qi Ming asked Feng Yuan: "What about the Time-Space Super Beast?"

Just as Feng Yuan was about to say that they had lost track of it, a bolt of lightning struck down from the spacetime realm in the sky, and the spacetime super beast that had just disappeared reappeared on the streets of Ryugu City.

The Time-Space Super Beast was completely bewildered.

It originally wanted to rest in ancient times for a while longer, but it was forcibly pulled to the perilous modern world by the space-time boundary...

Worse still, within the scope of the new spacetime realm, its spacetime capabilities were severely disrupted, becoming extremely unstable and almost completely ineffective.

It can no longer escape back to ancient times, and it can no longer remain invincible!

Upon seeing this, Fengyuan immediately ran to a secluded spot and transformed.

"Leo!"

A burst of light appeared, and Ultraman Leo materialized.

He first stood in front of the Great Sea Dragon and said to the dragon girl who was commanding the Great Sea Dragon, "Please wait a moment, stop immediately, Urashima Taro kept his promise!"

The dragon girl asked sharply, "Then why did my sister die!"

Leo: "But he didn't open the shell, and the fact that he hasn't aged is the best proof of that!"

After saying this, Leo lunged at the Time-Space Super Beast, determined to destroy it in this place.

After hearing this, the Dragon Girl stopped the Great Dragon with some doubt, and then came to Urashima Taro and his group to confront them face to face.

"You really didn't open the seashell?" Her expression wavered when she saw Urashima Taro, whose appearance hadn't aged.

"Really, no." Urashima Taro, holding the sunset flower, quickly asked, "Is Otohime really in trouble?"

Dragon Girl Sister:

"Shortly after you left, my sister disappeared completely, and I can't sense her presence at all."

"So I think it's because you broke your promise that my sister died."

Qi Ming's eyes flashed: "Disappearance doesn't necessarily mean death."

Since Ryugu Castle is somewhat of a local power on Earth, and the Great Sea Dragon did not harm any innocent people after its appearance, he acted as a mediator and patiently mediated the situation.

Urashima Taro, as if grasping at a straw, said, "That's right, perhaps Otohime has just left temporarily because of some important matter, and she will return to us one day."

The dragon girl shook her head: "It's not that simple. If even I can't find it..."

Before she could finish speaking, another bolt of lightning struck down from the spatial dimension in the sky.

At the other end of the street appeared a woman whose clothes and appearance were exactly the same as the Dragon Girl's sister.

The Dragon Girl and Urashima Taro both widened their eyes at the same time.

"elder sister!"

"Otohime!"

In the original Ultraman Tiga series, a bolt of lightning struck from the timeline, sending a girl named Yuri Tezuka from the distant past to Nozue of the GUTS team.

In this world, the spacetime realm also "crackled" down with a bolt of lightning, bringing Urashima Taro's lover from the distant past to the present.

"Sister, Taro!" The Dragon Girl, who had been looking confused, rushed over with delight upon seeing the two of them.

The dragon girl asked incredulously, "Sister, are you alright? What are you doing here?"

Dragon Girl: "I don't know either... I was just waiting for Taro to come back in the Dragon Palace, and then I inexplicably appeared here."

When the three time-space monsters were together, a strange reaction indeed occurred.

The spacetime realm created by the golden dragon transported the dragon girl directly from the past to the future, so her younger sister naturally couldn't sense her presence.

Therefore, she mistakenly believed that her sister's disappearance was because the unfaithful man opened the seashell and died, so she brought the sea dragon to demand an explanation.

Huimei: "It turns out it was all a misunderstanding."

Is it a misunderstanding? Qi Ming felt that it might not be that simple.

When Gen was taken back to the past by the Time-Space Super Beast, the moment he stopped Urashima Taro from opening the shell may have truly changed history, and the "time-space paradox" followed.

If Urashima Taro hadn't opened the seashell, the Dragon Girl wouldn't have died.

If the Dragon Girl sister doesn't die, the Dragon Girl sister won't bring the Great Sea Dragon to seek revenge.

It was only after hearing the mournful cry of the Great Sea Dragon that Fengyuan felt compassion and reminded Urashima Taro not to open the seashell.

If any link in the chain goes wrong, a spacetime paradox will occur, and spacetime itself may become disordered.

Perhaps to break this paradox, the timeline was slightly adjusted, allowing the spacetime realm to bring the Dragon Girl back to the future, creating the illusion of her death to ensure everything proceeded smoothly.

Time and spacetime have mysteriously closed a loop, but the original tragedy has indeed changed.

The Golden Dragon and the Time-Space Super Beast unintentionally did good things despite their bad intentions.

"Time is awe-inspiring..." Qi Ming pondered for a long time before finally uttering this sentiment.

"Otohime, look, this is the sunset flower I wanted to show you." Urashima Taro handed the sunset flower in his hand to the dragon girl.

The Dragon Girl took it and nodded emphatically: "You kept your promise."

Qi Ming then reminded the Dragon Girl, "Alright, the misunderstanding is cleared up. Let the Great Sea Dragon get down to business, or I'll go complain to Ren Dragon about how you've messed things up."

Looking at her older sister, who was nestled together with Urashima Taro, and then thinking about the grief and anger she had felt over the past few days because of her death, the younger sister felt a wave of disillusionment.

Was I just worrying for nothing and wasting my time?
After Qi Ming reminded her, she came to her senses and called for Da Hailong to help.

The Great Dragon once again activated the spacetime vortex in an attempt to curb the spread of the spacetime realm.

However, its cultivation level was ultimately inferior to that of the Golden Dragon, and its effect was not obvious.

Fortunately, Saijo Nagi and Moroboshi Dan finally arrived in the Hien II, carrying the Anti-Dimensional Energy Cannon that Tregear and Agamus had hastily built.

Aizen Makoto and Fujimiya were also in the back seat. With such a big incident, they naturally had to be there in person.

Looking at the distorted and chaotic scene in the sky caused by the new spacetime boundary, Dan Moroboshi said with a solemn expression: "We must be careful. Once the spacetime chaos here gets out of control and spreads, the entire Earth will be in complete chaos."

Saijo Nagi: "Leave it to me."

She pulled the lever, and the [Anti-Space-Time Energy Cannon] fired, striking the illusory golden dragon.

"Crack..."

The portion of spacetime that shrouded the golden dragon dissipated, and its clear true form appeared in the real world!
Now, we can launch an effective attack on him!
After seeing the golden dragon, Qi Ming pondered whether he should put it into the combat device to keep the silver dragon company.

"But golden dragons must be quite difficult to tame... No, wait, are golden dragons hostile to humans? They seem like Bruton..."

On the battlefield, Leo was fighting fiercely with the time-space monster until he was forced back a few steps by the flames spewed out by the monster. Just as he was about to adjust and charge forward again, a crimson figure suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

That was the evil Bogaru, who used teleportation to rush into the battlefield.

The golden dragon emerged from the realm of time and space; for it, the time was ripe!
It spread its wings like two wings, and just like a normal Bogaru devours Gudun, it swallowed the spacetime super beast into its body and digested it in an instant.

Instant kill!

After devouring the Time-Space Super Beast, the evil Bogaru slowly turned towards the golden dragon.

The ferocious aura emanating from it made even the golden dragon feel unprecedented pressure.

I seem to have stumbled upon a truly extraordinary place...

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