Entertainment: You're asked to make a graduation project, but you're asked to film Ultrama

Friday night at 8 PM, Bilibili.

Countless viewers waiting in front of their screens refreshed the page on time.

The audience's expectations have been raised to the peak.

Especially the ambiguous teaser from Light Chaser Studio on Weibo—"This is a story about time, encounters, and reunions..."

This has further whetted everyone's appetite.

……

"♪A miracle will surely happen...♫"

As the familiar opening sequence ends, the scene transitions to the next scene.

The episode opens with a flashback.

The image has a hazy, pale yellow filter, giving it the feel of an old movie.

In a corner of the city park, a little boy sat dejectedly on a stone in the square.

At this moment, the camera slowly approaches the boy from a first-person perspective, looking down at him.

"Oh, you look so listless..."

It turns out this is from an old woman's perspective.

"Smile, okay... Ahahaha."

She approached the little boy and began to comfort the dejected child.

"Look at me, I'm so old, yet I'm still so energetic..."

The old man then gave the boy a pendant with a photo on it.

After opening the slightly worn pendant, the image revealed a pretty girl with a ponytail, dressed in a Republic-era student uniform.

But when the little boy looked up, the old woman had vanished.

At this point, the boy had no idea who the girl in the photo was...

Wild Rui!

A call from an unknown source woke Ye Rui from his sleep...

It turned out that was Ye Rui's dream.

The opening visuals, paired with soothing music, create a wonderful atmosphere.

Even in the smallest details, the Ultraman Tiga series is incredibly well-made; you can see the team's dedication.

So? This is Norizuki's memory?

Something's not right! Nine out of ten things are definitely not right!

Is this episode about Nori?

……

Screen turn

In Kyokai City, there is a scenic spot called Sakura-oka.

A thick layer of haze suddenly appeared over the once bustling city.

Those were not ordinary dark clouds, but a purplish-black magnetic field vortex.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

Viewers in front of the screen could almost hear the sizzling sound of electricity passing through the air.

Gu Nan invested a special effects budget comparable to that of a movie.

In the video, as the magnetic field fluctuated violently, a jaw-dropping scene unfolded.

That was Sakuragaoka's commercial street, but now, like a mirage, it seemed to overlap with the phantom of another era.

A huge, rusty steel ship appeared to be "sailing" above a bustling street, with a few faded English letters written on its hull – "Zampolis".

This is not over yet.

World War II-era propeller-driven fighter planes, vintage cars from decades ago, and even figures dressed in retro clothing...

Countless fragments from different times and spaces, as if forcibly kneaded together by an invisible hand, flickered wildly in the Sakuragaoka region at this moment.

Holy crap! These special effects are amazing!

What's going on? Is there a time warp? Has the Bermuda Triangle moved to Jinghai?

Bermuda Triangle: Ships Swallowed Daily

This ship looks familiar; it seems to be the American transport ship that actually disappeared in Bermuda in history?

[It's a bit scary, this sense of incongruity where history and modernity overlap.]

……

Inside the Victory Team's command center, alarms blared.

Ye Rui frantically typed on the keyboard, the data displayed on the screen making him break out in a cold sweat.

"This region has generated a strong, unusual magnetic field. These things... were all transported from the past by this magnetic field!"

In order to investigate this phenomenon, the Victory team quickly established a forward base on site.

In the center of the chaotic vortex, accompanied by a blinding flash of lightning, a girl wearing an old-fashioned school uniform from the Republican era, that is, the 1920s, stumbled and fell out of thin air.

Her face was filled with terror as she looked around at the towering buildings and steel cars that seemed like monsters to her, and she trembled with fear.

The Victory Team took the girl back to their base.

However, the girl appeared extremely resistant and terrified when faced with a group of people dressed in strange uniforms and carrying strange instruments. No matter how she was asked, she huddled in a corner and refused to speak.

"She was very frightened."

At this point, everyone started discussing who would be the most suitable person to ask.

Xincheng straightened his collar, full of confidence: "I'll go. I'm handsome and approachable."

Horii rolled his eyes: "Come on, with your looks, you'll scare the young girl to tears. I think I'm the most suitable one to go; I look honest."

The two argued back and forth.

Finally, the captain pointed to Ye Rui, who had been silent all along: "Let Ye Rui go. He's the youngest, and he looks about the same age as that girl. He should make you feel the safest."

Ye Rui paused for a moment, then nodded.

When Ye Rui entered the room and saw the girl curled up on the sofa, he was a little stunned.

After all, Ye Rui was the youngest among them, and his personality was a bit shy. He was still a little reserved when he met girls of the same age.

However, a sense of familiarity from somewhere emboldened Ye Rui to start talking to her.

Under Ye Rui's gentle reassurance, the girl finally lowered her guard.

Her name was Yuri Tsune (originally known as Yuri Tezuka), and she was born in 1915.

[Let me do the math... 1915? That's my great-grandmother's generation!]

Wow, is this a real time-travel story? This plot is interesting.

[Ye Rui usually seems a bit dull, but he's got a knack for flirting! Look at his eyes, it's definitely love at first sight!]

[Don't speculate, upstairs. This person lived a hundred years ago. Is this some kind of "ghost story"?]

However, the heartwarming moment did not last long.

In the analysis room, Horii looked at the data, his face turning extremely grim. He used the story of "the rotten carpenter forgetting to return home" as a metaphor.

"Wang Zhi, a woodcutter during the Jin Dynasty, encountered a celestial child playing chess while chopping wood on a mountain. After watching the game for a while, he discovered that the handle of his axe had rotted away, and when he returned to the human world, hundreds of years had passed."

Horii's voice was low, tinged with a hint of reluctance: "Although it's just a legend, and reality might not be so exaggerated, using the story as an analogy, this girl could also be like that axe. She appeared alongside an abnormal magnetic field. If that magnetic field causing the spacetime distortion disappears, the time-correcting force might instantly affect her."

"In other words..."

Ye Rui rushed in, just in time to hear these words, and his face turned pale: "What do you mean?"

Horii looked at Nozue and sighed, "She might age instantly, become an old woman, or even... turn into a pile of bones."

[Holy crap! No way!]

[Horuii, you jinx! Shut up!]

[Such a cute girl turned into skeletons? Gu Nan, if you dare to film this, I'll send you razor blades today!]

Sure enough, the candy was full of shards of glass; I knew it wouldn't be that simple.

Ye Rui could not accept this cruel reality.

At this moment, a new monster appeared.

It was a monster with huge horns and its body shimmering with golden light—Goldras.

It is the culprit that caused all of this.

Its two horns can distort spacetime, concentrating all the strange magnetic fields from around the world into Sakuragaoka.

Those strange magnetic fields and alternate dimensions formed a huge "spacetime realm" here.

Even the anomalous space in the forest where Hilbargon first appeared has been moved to Sakura Hill.

The Victory Team is intensely studying their battle strategy.

In order to fight the monster, the GUTS team decides to launch a counterattack.

If strange phenomena occur in spacetime, then use the opposite energy to collide with the energy of the spacetime boundary, so that the disordered spacetime can cancel each other out.

The Victory Team decided to send the antimagnetic Magnus 1 and the antigravity Crafas 2 to intercept them.

However, Horii was worried that frequent contact with people from the past would cause a distortion of time and history.

He strongly urged the captain to order Ye Rui to return to the team...

But the captain respects the team members' ideas, even those of a kid like Ye Rui.

Ye Rui is a genius scientist, but he is also somewhat naive and inexperienced in the ways of the world. Sometimes he is more innocent and impulsive in his views on problems.

Normally, Ye Rui would conduct thorough and rational research from the rear, but he lacked any understanding of the most basic human emotions and feelings...

Once, Mayumi told him amidst the flames of war that many times, not everything can be solved through logical reasoning.

Take wars between species, for example; they are far more complex than deducing mathematical formulas.

The appearance of Zhong Baihe allowed Ye Rui to gradually feel the power of emotions.

This is also one of the reasons why Megumi chose to let Mizuki handle it.

……

But on the other hand, Ye Rui was distracted.

At this moment, Zhong Baihe was in a state of extreme collapse.

Holding an old map from the last century, she tried to find her home in this concrete jungle.

But where is home anymore?

The original wooden cabins have long since been transformed into multi-story office buildings; the original streams have become busy asphalt roads.

She stood on the bustling street, surrounded by indifferent and hurried modern people, and felt like a lonely ghost abandoned by the world.

That extreme sense of loneliness, transmitted through the screen, struck the hearts of every viewer.

Ye Rui found her.

But instead of taking her back to base, he made a surprising decision.

"Since time is running out, let her leave behind one last happy memory in this era."

The following scene is the sweetest "date" in the entire series.

There was no fighting, no monsters.

There were only boys and girls.

Ye Rui took Baihe to a fast food restaurant.

Seeing Lily's bewildered expression when faced with a hamburger, Ye Rui patiently taught her how to eat it. He smiled when he saw the look of surprise on her face after she carefully took a bite.

They went to the arcade.

Yuri, who had never seen a video game before, was taken by Nori to ride a motorcycle simulator.

Lily, who had never experienced such speed and passion before, screamed in fright, but couldn't help laughing out loud.

That was a genuine smile.

At that moment, she forgot that she was a time traveler and forgot the grief of losing her home.

Finally, the two arrived at the photo booth.

The flash went off.

Seeing Baihe's still somewhat reserved and even slightly worried face in front of the camera, Ye Rui reached out and gently poked her cheek as if possessed.

He looked into her eyes, and as if possessed, said gently:

"You seem so listless?"

"How about you smile?"

This sentence seems to have a magical power.

Lily was stunned.

Then, looking into the clear eyes of the young man in front of her, the corners of her mouth slowly turned up, revealing an extremely bright smile.

"Click!"

The image freezes.

The smiles of the boy and girl in the photo have become eternal in this moment.

Ye Rui bought a pendant from a roadside vendor, made a necklace from the printed photo, and hung it around Lily's neck.

"This is for you."

Lily clutched the necklace, tears welling in her eyes: "Team member Ye Rui, thank you... I'm really happy today."

[Aww, this is so sweet!]

[Ye Rui's really something! That was so sweet!]

"Smile, please! Wait a minute! Could it be...?"

[It's sweet, but when I think about what Horii said, I want to cry. Is this really the last bit of happiness?]

[You old scoundrel Gu, please have some decency! Let them be together, okay? Kill that golden dragon monster and let the girl stay, okay?]

However, good times are always fleeting.

The communicator rang.

The spacetime boundary is expanding rapidly, and if Goldras is not stopped, the entire world will fall into spacetime chaos.

Ye Rui must return to the team.

He looked at Lily, his eyes filled with reluctance and pain.

He knew that this departure might be his last.

If they successfully defeat the monster, the spacetime realm will disappear, and Lily will also disappear, or... turn into bones.

But he had no choice.

He is a member of the Victory team.

Protecting the citizens is his responsibility!

Ye Rui entrusted Lily to a ground staff member in charge of the evacuation.

"Please...you must protect this girl."

Ye Rui's voice trembled.

"Okay, leave it to me."

Ye Rui deliberately reduced communication and dialogue, his words filled with reluctance and sorrow.

Ye Rui turned around, not daring to look at Baihe again, and strode towards the Sherlock car that had come to pick him up.

Behind her, Lily's clear voice rang out:

"Yorui! Thank you! Goodbye!"

Looking in the rearview mirror, Ye Rui saw Bai He standing by the roadside, waving her hand vigorously.

The wind blew through her long hair and skirt, and she smiled so brightly…

Ye Rui sat in the car, biting her lip tightly, and finally couldn't hold back her tears.

The world reflected in the rearview mirror is a farewell that grows ever more distant...

"It's all your fault..."

Ye Rui looked up at the huge monster in the distance, his eyes burning with unprecedented rage.

"You brought about the time-space distortion... You brought about a tragedy that should never have happened..."

"I'm going to kill you!"

Monsters are rampaging, and Nori rushes to the battlefield with the determination to die, while the girl waits patiently in the same spot.