As expected, the eight dragon heads floating behind Renlong all turned their gazes towards him. Together with the largest main head in the center, a total of nine huge dragon eyes, eighteen eyeballs as big as searchlights, instantly focused all their attention on Gaoshan Gamu.

A consciousness, more concentrated and powerful than before, crashed down like a tangible mountain.

"Uh!"

Gao Shan Ga Meng subconsciously took half a step back, her heart tightening.

Although he knew that Renlong meant no harm, being stared at so many big eyes so intently still made him involuntarily nervous.

Renlong's consciousness was not hostile; on the contrary, it carried an ancient and complex scrutiny.

It was a kind of... how to put it, very much like the look a respected elder in the family would give when looking at a younger member of the family who, although reckless and impulsive, has made mistakes, is not inherently bad.

Then, a completely new stream of information, specifically targeting Takayama Gamu, was precisely injected into his mind.

"!"

Takayama Gamu's body jolted violently. His eyes, which had been shining with excitement and curiosity, paused slightly upon receiving the information, and then the light quickly dimmed.

His face turned pale at a visible speed, his lips trembled slightly, and his eyes quickly changed from initial shock to disbelief, and finally turned into a bottomless sense of despair.

He seemed to have all his energy drained away, standing there like a petrified statue, motionless.

"Gil, Bokuragu, and Zhongnaier... they were all from Earth... What did Fujimiya and I do...?"

It seems that Renlong told him about beating up his Earth colleague, and maybe even added a few words of criticism.

The child was completely terrified.

Li Qingyang watched this scene quietly without saying a word to disturb it.

He reached out and patted Gao Shan Gamu's shoulder, which had stiffened instantly, lightly, offering a silent comfort.

He then turned back to the ancient guardian deity of the earth.

This got to the heart of the matter.

[Renlong, I have another very important matter to ask you this time.]

The massive dragon head of the Ren dragon nodded slightly, its ancient consciousness conveying the message to speak.

Li Qingyang's thoughts were tinged with a solemnity, as if he were searching for the root cause.

What is the method used on your Earth to create Ultraman?

【...】

The flow of thoughts abruptly ceased.

It was as if the power to the best-performing server had been suddenly cut off. The massive information field that had been running smoothly just a second ago, which incorporated the consciousnesses of Li Qingyang, Gaoshan Womeng, and Renlong, was completely wiped out in that instant.

No, that's not right.

Li Qingyang's eyebrows twitched slightly, keenly sensing something amiss.

This is neither silence nor a refusal to answer.

Instead...

The look of despair and painful struggle on Gaoshan Gamu's face was frozen in time, like a lifelike tragic sculpture.

His mouth, slightly agape in shock, hung motionless in mid-air.

The underground lake, whose surface was as still as a mirror, had now completely lost even the slightest ripple, transforming into a massive, naturally formed obsidian.

Even the tiny dust particles floating in the air, illuminated by the light, seemed to be precisely pinched one by one by invisible fingers, defying all the laws of physics, and remained frozen in mid-air.

Time has been paused.

Or rather, everything within this vast underground cavity, except for Li Qingyang, was forcibly dragged into a state of absolute stillness.

This feeling...

Li Qingyang slowly raised his head, recalling the scenes in the drama where Takayama Gamu officially obtained the Gaia Light and Fujimiya Hiroya obtained the Agul Light for the second time. A look of understanding flashed in his dark eyes.

Deep within the vast underground lake, a ray of pure golden light quietly emerges.

Bearing the entire history of this planet from its birth to the present, spanning a full 4.6 billion years, light rose from the bottom of the lake, piercing through the deep water and turning the dark lake into a golden sea.

Wherever the golden light passed, the rock walls seemed to come alive, radiating a soft glow from within, echoing the golden light from its source.

In an instant, the entire underground cavity transformed into a magnificent and sacred golden temple.

Li Qingyang was standing in the center of the temple.

He watched silently as the golden sea of ​​light expanded and rose ever higher, its reflection shimmering in his dark pupils as if igniting two miniature suns.

This is... this Earth...

The source of power for Gaia and Agul.

A consciousness far more ancient, vast, and unfathomable than Renlong, like an invisible tide, slowly enveloped the entire space.

There was no language, no images, and not even any specific information.

His very existence is enough to make any intelligent life form feel its own insignificance and humility on a spiritual level.

The will of Earth in the Gaia spacetime descends.

Feeling the silent gaze of this vast will, Li Qingyang's lips curled up into a barely perceptible smile.

Compared to that seemingly aloof but actually clingy little ghost girl, this Earth's will in the Gaia timeline is truly...

That's too serious.

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

Absolute stillness, like shattered glass, collapsing with a deafening roar.

As if the play button had been pressed, the solidified dust began to swirl again, the water surface rippled slightly, and the distraught expression on Gaoshan Gamu's face became vivid again, with groans of pain and struggle escaping from his throat.

The light of the golden temple that had enveloped the entire underground void receded quietly like a tide, returning to the depths of the underground lake and finally disappearing, as if the sacred and magnificent scene just now was merely an illusion.

Li Qingyang solemnly decided to retract his assessment of the Earth's will in Gaia's spacetime as "too serious."

If it weren't for the dazzling, intimidating three-colored Earth light within him, He probably wouldn't have been so tactful in expressing His desire for him to stay; He would have directly transformed and flown over to cling to His leg.

Sigh... if this really took human form, it would probably be a huge female ghost...

Fear (squeezes the timer to flash).

But now that He has faded away, it's as if nothing had ever happened.

Li Qingyang slowly withdrew his mental energy from his body, feeling exhilarated.

This trip was totally worth it!

He reached out and patted the young, brilliant scientist's stiff shoulder once more.

"Let's go, back to the surface."

"...Huh?"

Gao Shanwomeng seemed to be waking up from a dream, raising his head blankly, his vision still lingering with the emptiness left by the truth instilled in him by Renlong.

Before he could ask anything more, a familiar feeling of weightlessness, as if enveloped in flowing light, washed over him once more.

"Waaaaaaahh ...

Accompanied by the same terrified screams as when they arrived, a silver streak of light shot into the sky from the deep pit and finally landed steadily on the ravaged ruins.

The air was filled with a pungent, burnt smell and thick dust; every breath felt like swallowing sandpaper.

The moment his feet touched solid ground again, Takayama Gamu's body went limp, his face turned as pale as paper, and he leaned against a broken telephone pole, gagging a few times but vomiting nothing.

The psychological impact is far more intense than the physical discomfort.

Li Qingyang ignored him and simply stood quietly to the side, looking down at his chest.

Deep within that body, above the ocean of light, a brand new light has appeared.

It was pure gold, yet completely different from its own light.

It is neither fiery nor ostentatious; instead, it appears incredibly profound, ancient, and vast, as if it has accumulated 4.6 billion years of time. Just by sensing its existence, one feels a sense of heaviness as if facing a vast epic.

More importantly, this ray of light contains an unimaginable amount of information, as vast as the universe.

Ultraman Manufacturing Instructions

Li Qingyang gave this ball of light a name in his heart: it was the Earth's will in this time and space, a generous gift of temporary worker's wages to him.

However, this instruction manual seems to have been encrypted.

Most of the information inside is presented in a chaotic and uninterpretable state, like a bunch of gibberish, or like a language that belongs to a higher dimension that I cannot understand at all.

Perhaps... only the little ghost girl, who is also a planetary will, can decode the contents of this?

I'm so happy! The little ghost girl will be so excited when we get back.

He could provide her with an endless supply of light, and with infinite light, she could use this manufacturing manual from her counterpart in another world to create an infinite number of Ultraman.

At that time, renaming Earth the Land of Light wouldn't be such a difficult thing...

Hehehe.

Li Qingyang cheerfully pulled himself back to reality, only to find that a certain rebellious son of the earth had completely fallen into a state of self-isolation.

"senior......"

Gao Shan Gamu leaned against a huge boulder, struggling to stand up straight. His face, which always radiated cheerfulness, joy, and youthful energy, was now filled with only dejection and pain.

“Rinryu is right… Fujimiya and I… we were both wrong…” He lowered his head, his voice filled with an overwhelming sense of self-loathing. “We actually used the Earth’s own power to attack the children of Earth… What… what have we done…”

The young man clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms, his body trembling slightly from extreme guilt.

Li Qingyang looked at him quietly without responding immediately. He simply took out the chibi Zoffy keychain that Kato Megumi had given him from his pocket and gently stroked the adult's smooth head with his thumb.

The surrounding ruins groaned in the silence, and the broken steel bars pointed towards the gray sky, as if silently accusing the injustice.

"What did you do?"

A calm voice broke the oppressive silence.

Li Qingyang turned his head and looked at Gao Shanwomeng. There was no sympathy or blame in those black eyes, only the indifference of an adult looking at reality.

"Nature has done its part to protect humanity."

This sentence was like a hammer devoid of any emotion, gently striking Gao Shanwomeng's chaotic heart, causing his thoughts, which were immersed in self-loathing, to pause slightly.

Li Qingyang continued, "Although we are all children of Earth, the Earth monsters' logic of only fighting off the Destruction Bringer probably doesn't care about the lives of humans. You did nothing wrong in protecting the people on this land beneath your feet."

He paused, his tone still calm and even, yet every word was clear.

"The mistake was that you couldn't communicate effectively."

Gao Shan suddenly raised his head, his lips moved, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Yes... communication... If we could have communicated with Renlong sooner, if we could have known sooner that those monsters were also children of Earth... then everything might have been different.

"Life is like that; the past is the past, and it can't be changed." Li Qingyang's gaze went over the young man's shoulder and looked at the devastated city. His voice carried a strange sense of vicissitude that didn't match his youthful appearance.

"People should take responsibility for their actions, but the way to take responsibility is not to wallow in useless regret. What's the point of torturing yourself like that, even if you torment yourself for a lifetime?"

"It's meaningless except for making yourself feel good."

One sentence after another, calm, straightforward, even cold words, were like the sharpest scalpel, mercilessly dissecting Gao Shanwomeng's heart, which was tightly wrapped in guilt, exposing the bloody and fragile idealism within to the cold air.

Takayama Gamu's body swayed, and his face became even paler.

He had never heard such a thing before.

On Alchemy Star, his companions are all geniuses like him, full of hope for the future and passion for changing the world.

In XIG, the team members are all passionate and upright soldiers who fight to protect what they have.

But the words of this senior were like a steel ingot, forged and tempered in the crucible of society, cold and hard, yet carrying an undeniable weight of reality.

"Then... what should I do...?"

Takayama Gamu's voice was dry and hoarse, as if it were being squeezed out from deep in his throat.

"Senior... how should I take responsibility?"

Li Qingyang turned back to him and looked at him again. "You feel sorry for them, don't you?"

Gao Shan Gamu nodded vigorously, his eyes reddening.

"Then let's turn this guilt into strength."

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