Ultraman: Invincible from Saving Tiga.

Chapter 354 The Power of Despair and Lament from 24 Years Ago

"Emi?"

Cangbian Shu frowned, his tone devoid of joy at their long-awaited reunion, instead filled with impatience and accusation, "How did you get here? Who let you in?"

Hui Mei's prepared explanation vanished the moment she heard that cold question.

Her heart felt like it had been pricked by needles, a dense, persistent pain.

"I……"

She took a deep breath, trying to make her voice sound calm, "Father, I've come..."

"I don't care what you're here for, get out right now."

Cangbian Shu rudely interrupted her, pointing to the door with annoyance at the disruption to his research. "This is a top-secret area, not a place for you. There's a limit to your willfulness."

"capricious?"

Hye-mi was stung by those two words. She could no longer remain calm, and her voice involuntarily rose, "I'm willful? In your eyes, everything I do is willful! Do you even know what day it is today?"

Cangbian Shu looked bewildered: "What day?"

"The anniversary of the disappearance of researcher Aobe Itsuki!"

Huimei practically yelled it out.

"?"

Do you mean I'm already dead?
A flicker of displeasure crossed Cangbian Shu's face. This was the first time he had ever been cursed to death in front of his own eyes, especially by his own daughter. But this was quickly replaced by deeper anger: "Nonsense! I am currently conducting a great experiment that could change the course of human history. Don't be unreasonable here!"

"A great experiment?"

Hui Mei gave a bitter laugh, "More important than life?"

As the two argued more and more fiercely, Xianren felt his head was about to explode.

You two, stop fighting!

He suddenly remembered Lin Yu's instructions: never change history.

If this father and daughter keep arguing, who knows what kind of trouble they'll cause.

What if Aobe Itsuki suddenly decides to stop the experiment in a fit of anger? Wouldn't everything that followed, including his encounter with Blaze, be in vain?

No, we must stop them.

"enough."

Gento gave a low shout, stepped forward, and forcefully pulled the agitated Hye-mi back. "We should go."

"Captain, let me go!"

Huimei struggled, "I came to save him, do you know he's about to..."

"I know."

Xianren emphasized his words and gestured for her to calm down with his eyes, "But not now. We can't change the past, or we'll make a huge mess of things."

Cangbian Shu looked at the strange man who suddenly interrupted, and the two of them suddenly started talking nonsense again. He looked at his daughter, who was being held by him, and his brows furrowed even more.

He couldn't be bothered with these two inexplicable people; in his eyes, nothing was more important than the wormhole experiment in front of him.

He had been waiting for more than a decade to verify the spacetime theory proposed by his mentor, Taisuke Ishido, in his later years, and he absolutely could not allow any mishap at the last moment.

He turned away, ignoring the two of them, and plunged back into the cold, hard data.

Outside the laboratory, in the corridor.

Huimei was forcibly dragged out by Gento, and the alloy door slowly closed behind them.

Why did you drag me out like this?!

Hui Mei completely lost control of her emotions. She shook off Gento's hand, her eyes red and swollen. "That man, he's still the same! Cold, selfish, only thinking about his research! Why did I come to save him? I should have just let him die in that explosion!"

Gento looked at Hye-mi, who was completely different from the calm and capable intelligence expert he usually was, and sighed helplessly.

You've broken down, girl.

It turns out that Aobe Emi, who usually manipulates everyone, also has such a vulnerable side.

"I understand how you feel."

Xianren handed her a tissue, speaking as gently as possible, "But our purpose in coming here is to find out the truth and rescue your father without altering history."

He paused, then devised a new plan: "We'll wait until 7:25 to act. At the crucial moment when the explosion is about to happen and the wormhole has already formed, we'll rush in and rescue them. That way, the historical fact of the wormhole's existence won't be changed, and your father will survive."

What the stringman didn't say was his deeper worry.

If too much intervention occurs now, preventing the wormhole from appearing, then he wouldn't have been caught up in the rescue three years ago, nor would he have connected with the Wild Man of Light from planet M421.

In a timeline without Ultraman Blaze, the meaning of all past battles would be overturned, and he dared not even imagine what would happen in the real world.

Of course, there's also the possibility that if the wildling hadn't been abducted to this world, Blaze might already be back in his own world, happily hunting.

However, it's also possible to get completely lost inside the wormhole; the matter of the savages is hard to say.

after all
The savage doesn't even know how to use light techniques! He only learned them in the final episode. With such illiteracy, how can you expect him to find his way back in the wormhole turbulence?
Can't find any.

Huimei took a few deep breaths to calm down. She wiped away her tears, nodded, and agreed to Gento's plan.

Then, she gestured with her lip toward the two unlucky guys on the ground.

"What about these two?"

ten minutes later.

At the entrance of Laboratory 307, the guards on duty had changed. One was tall and sturdy with a resolute face. The other, though petite, had sharp eyes and stood ramrod straight.

It was Gento and Emi who had changed into their guard uniforms.

As for the two unfortunate men who were unconscious, they were stripped naked except for their underwear, their hands and feet were tied, and their mouths were stuffed with socks. They were then thrown into a storage room not far away.

Is this considered a fighting style of the Warriors of Light?
In response, Gento said: What Warrior of Light? This fits the fighting style of the Wild Man of Light, so there's nothing wrong with it.

The two stood at the doorway, exchanged a glance, and looked at each other's ill-fitting uniforms. They both saw a hint of barely suppressed laughter in each other's eyes.

The tension and oppression from before seemed to dissipate considerably at this moment.

Time passed by minute by minute.

As the clock struck 19:25 p.m., a piercing high-frequency buzzing sound suddenly came from inside the laboratory, followed by a violent energy fluctuation.

coming!

The two exchanged a glance and, without hesitation, burst open the laboratory door.

The sight before them made them all gasp in shock.

The spherical device in the center of the laboratory has been fully deployed, revealing its internal core.

Countless pieces of debris from the V99 spaceship are suspended in the air, drawn by an invisible force, and spinning rapidly around the center.

At the center of all the wreckage, a fist-sized black dot is rapidly expanding, forming a vortex that emits an eerie blue light.

Wormhole!

"Father!"

Hui Mei screamed in surprise, only to see Cang Bian Shu lying face down on the control panel, seemingly knocked unconscious by the powerful energy shock.

A terrifying suction force emanated from the wormhole, pulling in everything in the laboratory that wasn't secured.

Gento and Emi clung tightly to the door frame to avoid being sucked away.

"No, the suction is too strong, I can't get through!" Gento gritted his teeth, veins bulging.

Just then, the suction force suddenly increased several times.

"what!"

Unable to hold on any longer, their bodies instantly left the ground, like kites with broken strings, flying towards the wormhole that was swallowing everything.

It’s over.

The string man's mind went blank, and only one thought flashed through his mind.

Buho!

The next moment, a hand appeared out of thin air and precisely grabbed Gento's collar, while the other hand grabbed Emi's arm.

An irresistible force pulled the two people who were about to be swallowed back from the gravitational pull of the wormhole.

Lin Yu stood lazily behind them, holding one chick in each hand as if he were carrying two little chicks.

He glanced at the wormhole, which had expanded to several meters in diameter and was incredibly deep inside, and clicked his tongue in amazement, muttering:
"Alright, alright, so it turns out it's just a large toilet. No wonder the person disappeared as soon as they went in; they were flushed into some unknown dimensional sewer. Who can save them now?"

He settled the two still-shaken people in the corner, then clapped his hands and stretched his wrists.

"Alright, you guys stay here, I'll go get the person back."

After saying that, under the dumbfounded gazes of Gento and Emi, Lin Yu actually faced the terrifying suction force and casually plunged into the wormhole.

Almost at the same moment he disappeared, the energy in the entire laboratory went completely out of control.

Boom——

A violent explosion swept everything away, and flames and shockwaves engulfed the entire floor.

Just when Xianren thought Lin Yu had also disappeared into the wormhole, a figure leisurely walked out from the explosion and the chaotic energy flow.

Telekinesis is telekinesis of extremely high purity!
He was holding two unconscious researchers in white coats, one in each hand. One of them was none other than Hui Mei's father, Aobe Itsuki.

"Done, call it a day."

Lin Yu tossed the two men to the ground and laughed easily, "Let's run away."

However, just as he turned to leave with his men, his gaze was drawn to the scattered spaceship wreckage in the corner of the laboratory.

He paused, slightly taken aback.

Because he sensed an extremely strong aura emanating from those cold metal fragments.

It was an aura of despair, an aura of fear, the purest resentment and lamentation uttered by all the crew members before their deaths when that peaceful exploration ship was destroyed by a missile twenty-four years ago.

Immediately afterwards, the invisible black aura, as if guided by some force, peeled away from the wreckage, transforming into thin black threads that rushed toward Lin Yu and entered his body.

Lin Yu felt a surge of cool but pure energy flow into his limbs and bones, and a line of text he had never seen before appeared in his mind.

[Wailing Devouring: Progress 0%. Absorbing the "despair" and "wailing" of dying creatures, transforming them into nutrients for its own growth.]

Then, the 0% progress bar visibly jumped up a small increment.

Lin Yu was stunned.

He looked down at his hands, then at the remains, a strange expression on his face.

"So... even if I didn't do it myself, I could still absorb it?"

(End of this chapter)