They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 286 Backhand
After hearing Masaki Keigo's plan, Daigo remained silent for a long time.

He looked out the window and saw the Gazorts, twisted by darkness, roaring on the ground, and the innocent lightning men in the sky turning into streams of light, throwing themselves into the battlefield with a tragic and heroic gesture as if going to their deaths.

And the humans who died in the war...

This is indeed... something only he could do.

“It’s not time to give up yet!”

Daigo took a deep breath and spoke to Mizuno and Horii beside him.

"Give up? Daigo, what are you talking about?"

Horii suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly at him.

"The war has begun! It's a racial war ignited by hatred and despair! There's nothing more we can do!"

"No!"

"It's not over yet! We must keep going until the very last moment!"

"Because you are the scientists on Earth who understand Lightning Man the most!"

Daigo spoke again.

These words struck Horii like an electric current.

He was stunned.

Yes... I am the scientist who knows them best... I have analyzed their language, deciphered their life forms, and even depicted the possibility of them having intelligence and a future.

But now, I sit here, watching them head towards destruction, watching humanity sink into the mire along with them.

Am I studying them just to write a detailed epitaph for them?

No! Absolutely not!
"I understand……"

"There is still hope... As long as the war can be stopped, as long as there is an opportunity to communicate, I have a way! New City!"

Horii's body trembled, not from fear, but from a renewed sense of mission that had been lost and found, which rekindled his soul.

He shoved open the control panel in front of him, turned to the cockpit, and roared, "Land the plane! Land it to ground control!"

"Okay~"

Shinjo had been silently piloting his fighter jet, but upon hearing Horii's voice, which had reignited his fighting spirit, he responded without hesitation.

Pushing the control stick, the Flying Swallow traced an arc and plunged towards the ground.

The jolt of the plane landing pulled everyone back to reality.

The hatch opened, and Horii and Dr. Mizuno practically rushed out, carrying their equipment, to try and seize that one in ten thousand chance.

In the chaos, no one noticed that Daigo quietly slipped away from the group and disappeared into a corner.

He raised his right hand in the light of the light stick.

A colossal figure materialized in the light and landed steadily between the human defenses and the demon Gazort.

Giants in red, purple, and silver stood like gods under the dim sky.

"It's Ultraman Tiga!"

"A giant has appeared!"

Inside the joint command center, everyone was startled to their feet by this sudden turn of events.

On the battlefield

Inside the cockpit of Unit-01 of the GUTS team, Rena felt a pang of anxiety as she looked at the familiar, enormous figure on the screen.

"Dagu..."

She uttered the name almost subconsciously.

Immediately afterwards, she saw Tiga slowly raise his right hand, palm facing the human defense line, making a very clear stop gesture.

There was no language, no sound, but the will contained in that gesture was conveyed to everyone with unparalleled clarity.

"Commander, Unit 1 requests a ceasefire!"

Upon seeing this, Lina immediately spoke into her headset. Without waiting for a reply, she proactively switched the mecha's weapon system to standby mode.

On the human high command side, the commanders looked at each other in bewilderment.

Because Tiga and Impet have already demonstrated their goodwill towards humanity through their actions.

"All units, cease fire temporarily! Remain on high alert!"

After a brief silence, the commander gave the order.

And so, in an eerie silence, the sounds of gunfire and explosions temporarily disappeared from this land.

After doing all this, Tiga turned around and faced the several evil spirits Gazot who were still growling and exuding an ominous aura.

He did not adopt a fighting stance, but slowly spread his arms in front of his chest.

Soft, warm golden light particles began to spread from the timer on his chest.

Touched by this light, the Gazorts' ferocious roars gradually subsided, and the crimson light burning in their empty eye sockets began to flicker and weaken.

The dark energy, infused by Hitler and filled with resentment and hatred, was being purified and melted away little by little in the face of this pure light, like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun.

"Tiga...does he want to stop this war?"

Near the command post, Horii and Dr. Mizuno, who had just run out of the plane, saw this scene and their faces were instantly filled with ecstasy.

"Great!" Horii pumped his fist. "If the giants are on our side too, then things will be much easier for us from here on out!"

However, before he finished speaking, something strange happened.

In the center of the battlefield, Tiga, who was emitting light, had his diamond-shaped timer on his chest suddenly start to beep rapidly, turning from blue to a blinding red.

The golden light emanating from his body began to flicker violently and dim.

Purifying this energy, a mixture of the power of the dark giants and the resentment of a race, was far more taxing on him than a fierce battle.

"Commander! The giant's energy is waning!"

Inside the command center, the monitor's report broke the brief silence.

"All combat units, prepare!"

The commander's face darkened, and he immediately issued a preparation order.

Once the giants fall, they will face potentially even more ferocious enemies.

Just then, a beam of light pierced the dark sky shrouded in thunderclouds and smoke.

It shot down precisely from outer space, striking Tiga squarely. The source of the beam of light was none other than the colossal space elevator that had extended into synchronous orbit, resembling a towering skyscraper—[Buzhou]!
This is a system that Keigo Masaki incorporated into his design from the very beginning.

Powered by a massive solar array in space, the [Light Particle Converter] converts pure sunlight into high-density light particle energy that Ultraman can absorb, enabling targeted energy replenishment over ultra-long distances!

This is exactly the kind of time that comes in handy...

The next moment, under the continuous illumination of light energy, the timer on Tiga's chest stopped flashing and returned to a stable blue.

The light emanating from him was no longer dim; instead, it became even more dazzling and sacred than before!
Where the light shines, miracles are happening.

The hideous demons, Gazort, began to disintegrate and recombine in the light, eventually transforming into countless palm-sized life forms that floated in the air like jellyfish, radiating soft electric light.

"Now! New Town!"

Horii seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Flying Swallow took off again, carrying him and Dr. Mizuno, and carefully landed in the center of the "ocean" made up of lightning men.

Horii took a deep breath and raised the modified translation machine in his hand.

He converted human language into special radio signals and sent his first greeting to the bewildered and curious lightning people around him.

Hello, friends from the ionosphere.

The lightning bolts paused slightly as they sensed the goodwill contained in the electromagnetic wave and realized that everything happening before their eyes was strange.

They ceased any aggressive behavior and instead curiously circled the Flying Swallow, their lights flashing in different hues, as if they were communicating with each other.

Seeing this, Tiga nodded, his mission as the "game-changer" was complete.

The rest will require the wisdom of both humans and the Lightning People to solve.

He nodded with satisfaction, and his enormous body, illuminated by the golden pillar of light behind him, slowly transformed into countless particles of light and dissipated into the air.

"Is Ultraman... a god?"

As Dr. Mizuno stepped off the plane, looking at the lightning figures flitting about like elves, he couldn't help but sigh deeply.

A racial war that could have destroyed both sides was miraculously stopped.

Thanks to Horii's translation device, humans and the Lightning People began their first communication.

After expressing goodwill, the two sides began negotiations on the core issue—living space.

The human side sincerely offered two solutions:
First, using existing technology, construct several massive ecosystems on the ground that completely simulate the ionospheric environment as the new home of the Lightning People;

Second, a special energy shielding area is set up on the microwave transmission path of the Space Electric G Ladder [Buzhou] to completely delineate a part of the ionosphere for the Lightning People to inhabit.

Faced with humanity's sincerity, the Lightning Man, through a translator, raised a question that puzzled all the scientists present.

We don't understand why you continue to emit electromagnetic waves that disrupt our lives towards our home.

"Because electromagnetic waves can only travel a limited distance within the atmosphere, in order to achieve long-distance communication globally, we need to use your home—the ionosphere—to reflect the signals, thereby extending the communication distance."

And that enormous building, its microwave power transmission system also needs to penetrate the ionosphere to deliver energy to the ground.

Horii explained patiently.

"Why do this? Isn't it natural to communicate with friends far away?"

Upon hearing this explanation, the radio signals of the Lightning People revealed an even stronger sense of bewilderment.

These words struck Dr. Mizuno like a bolt of lightning!
"I understand! I understand! We were all wrong! We were wrong from the very beginning!"

"The Lightning People! Their life characteristics! This means that each of them is a perfect signal transmitter and receiver! The society they form is a natural, seamless network covering the entire ionosphere!"

Dr. Mizuno said excitedly.

Horii was taken aback by what he heard, but then he realized what was going on.

Human beings may not be able to understand each other due to issues such as religion, language, and race.

They are completely different from the Lightning People, even in their life forms, and this difference makes it impossible for them to think from the other's perspective.

They simply used human technological logic to deduce these things, and ultimately concluded that the contradictions between them were irreconcilable.

If Dr. Mizuno's theory holds true, then there may not be an irreconcilable fundamental conflict between humans and lightning people!
On the contrary, this could be a great opportunity for... win-win cooperation!

Once a hypothesis is proposed, it is naturally to be verified immediately.

After gaining the understanding and assistance of the Lightning People, Horii immediately led his team to conduct emergency research together with the top communications and energy experts from the Eastern superpower.

The results came out very quickly.

And this result shocked everyone.

This "natural network system" based on the biological characteristics of the Lightning People... is indeed feasible!
If the Lightning People are willing to assist humanity, they can use themselves as nodes to build a completely new global information transmission system.

According to the preliminary calculations of Horii's team, the transmission speed and latency of this system will be far superior to any existing human communication network. At the same time, the total amount of communication electromagnetic waves emitted by humans into the ionosphere will be reduced by more than 99%!

Moreover, based on the near-perfect bio-superconductivity of the Lightning Man, humanity is very likely to develop a completely new energy transmission system that is more efficient and has less environmental impact, to completely replace the existing energy transmission solutions!

With this research result, the problem between humans and lightning beings is no longer a problem.

Cooperation is clearly a better option than confrontation.

Because of the enormous potential and benefits this field has shown, more researchers, more capital, and more resources have been poured into this brand-new field.

Everyone hopes that this revolutionary technology can be commercialized as soon as possible.

However, while everyone was immersed in this hard-won peace and joy, another more important and serious matter awaited the TPC's top leadership to resolve.

The highest-level meeting room at TPC.

On the huge main screen, a surveillance video is playing.

The location of the scene is the main control room of the space station at the top of the Buzhou space elevator.

In the video, two figures that are not exactly human are engaged in a high-speed battle that is incomprehensible to ordinary people in the narrow space of the room.

One of them was Impat, whom they already knew.

The other one is the blue giant.

At the end of the scene, Impat delivers a beam of light that completely slays and disintegrates the dark giant.

There was dead silence in the conference room.

The air was so heavy it seemed to freeze.

"Everyone, I think we all understand now."

"Apart from the Giants of Light who choose to stand on the side of humanity, like Tiga and Impaler..."

"There are still giants who are hostile to us..."

(End of this chapter)