wavenovel Chapter 363 Starry Gifts and Forest Legends, The Bonds of Childhood Innocence
Chapter 363 Starry Gifts and Forest Legends, The Bonds of Childhood Innocence
(It's really hard to write a two-in-one chapter. There are a lot of things to revise. In the future, I'll just collect these mediocre dramas together. I'll write the best episodes and the most memorable ones separately for each episode.)
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
According to the original outline, the original plot of the sixth episode of Gauss was a solo episode of "Fishing for Monsters" featuring Hiroji Doigaki.
However, Gu Nan decisively deleted it during the review.
The plot of that episode was relatively bland, and the so-called battle plan was like child's play. If it were filmed exactly as it was in this era, it would only be criticized by the audience for being idiotic.
The original eighth episode, "The Sleeping Girl," while having a good concept, was somewhat similar to the audiovisual experience of "Flower" and "Dream" from "Ultraman Tiga" and "Monster Script" from "Dyna."
Most importantly, although the plot is supposed to be a "dream," it failed to capture the dreamlike quality of Ultraman Tiga and Dyna. Instead, it felt more like a personal memoir of Rena.
In order to condense the original sixty-plus episodes into one season while maintaining the show's exciting moments and tight pace, episodes six and eight of the original version had to be removed.
Instead, he reorganized the original seventh and ninth episodes, merging them into the current, longer third episode.
These two episodes share a similar core theme: the pure friendship between children and the unknown.
One is a bond with a little monster that descended from outer space, and the other is a bond with a mythical monster from folk tales.
Gu Nan connected these two originally independent stories through the investigative clues of the youth elite team.
The drama is interwoven with dialogue, and the two storylines run parallel.
The clock hand points to eight o'clock.
Episode 3 has officially premiered!
The screen lights up, and the timeline shifts to a quiet night in 2030.
In the deep night sky, a meteor streaked across the horizon, trailing a long tail, and fell toward Earth.
It's like a mysterious gift from the distant universe to Earth.
[Here we go! Time to check in!]
I am in position.
[Starting with a shooting star, looks like an alien monster]
Who will Master Gao perform a physical ritual to send to the afterlife this night?
The next morning, the elite youth team immediately launched their operation.
Kaze and Haru Musashi were ordered to conduct a thorough search of the area where the meteorite fell.
The two men, armed with detection guns, continuously scanned the woods.
With their seamless teamwork, the two quickly discovered a strangely shaped metal box in a pit.
"What is this?"
Feng frowned and poked at the edge of the box with the barrel of his gun.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not an ordinary meteorite." Haru Musashi carefully put it away. "Let's take it back to base and let Tsuchikage take a look."
The scene then shifts to another meteorite impact site.
A little boy named Changye, carrying a schoolbag, was squatting curiously in front of a pit.
There were no boxes in the pit, but a huge pebble covered with strange patterns, resembling a dinosaur egg.
[Wow, are aliens opening blind boxes?]
This kid is really brave, daring to touch a UFO!
[Lazy Master: This egg looks abnormal; it's probably about to hatch into a father.]
Instead of being afraid, Changye excitedly picked up the egg and took it home like a precious treasure.
He even surrounded the egg with heaters to help it hatch, and eventually secretly took it to the school's activity center to show it off to his classmates.
Meanwhile, in the command center of the elite youth team, Tsuchikage was conducting intensive analysis of the mysterious box they had brought back.
Does anyone know about the Pioneers Project?
Tu Jing adjusted his glasses and projected a document onto the large screen.
Captain Qingguang, holding his teacup, nodded slightly: "Was that a human space exploration program from decades ago?"
"That's right."
Tu Jing typed rapidly on the keyboard, "In the last century, humanity launched the Pioneer and Voyager probes. They carried metal plates engraved with images of men and women, the location of Earth, and images of hydrogen atom spin transitions. This is because hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe."
This is precisely why Baltan was "invited" to the movie.
Tu Jing turned around, his eyes gleaming with excitement: "The symbols on the surface of this box are remarkably similar to the frequency messages we sent into space back then! I speculate that this is very likely a cosmic gift from extraterrestrial intelligent life to Earth after receiving our message!"
[6. Oh, that's what Baltan was tricked into coming to Earth by listening to this story back then.]
[Having settled in Bengbu, Baltan was mercifully punished by Master Gao.]
Humans really have no sense of caution at all; they can just send this kind of information to outer space so casually.
Why be on guard? Earth is protected by our brave and elite youth team. Do those alien bumpkins dare to come?
Just as Tsuchikage was trying to force open the box with various electric drills and even a small laser cannon, Vice Captain Mizuha suddenly received a new alarm.
"Captain, there are light spots that look like the light virus at the site where the meteorite crashed!" Mizuha reported.
"Has the light virus reappeared?"
The wind immediately alerted them.
"It's not just a light virus."
Mizuha pulled up another report: "Since the trail of the light virus was confirmed, people in this area called Yamawaro-yama have been reporting sightings of strange creatures."
Captain Haruka made a quick decision: "Haru Musashi, Mizuha, you two go to Yamawaro Mountain immediately to investigate. Fubuki stays behind to assist Tsuchikage in dealing with that box."
The camera follows Haru Musashi and Mizuha to a hot spring inn at the foot of the Yamawara Mountains.
The atmosphere of the hotel had a slightly strange feel to it.
The sign hanging at the entrance depicts a mountain child living in the forest, with ancient and mysterious brushstrokes.
The proprietress came over with a cup of tea, her movements slow and gentle. On the table next to her was a clay sculpture in the shape of a kappa.
In a corner of the hall, a little boy named Yuichi is having a heated argument with his father, Iwata.
"It's true! I really saw the Yamawaro after that meteorite fell yesterday!"
Yuichi defended loudly.
"What kind of monster is it? Is it fifty meters tall?" Mizuha asked as she stepped forward.
They suspected the monster was related to a meteorite that fell from the sky.
Yuichi shook his head: "It's not a monster, it's a yokai! It's about my height and has very friendly eyes!"
"Only children can see the monsters that adults can't, Yamawaro." Haru Musashi listened thoughtfully to the child's explanation.
Mr. Iwata, who was standing nearby, immediately interrupted the conversation, his face grim: "Yuichi, you're just hallucinating because you remembered that legend."
"I didn't! I really saw it!"
"Is that enough?"
Mr. Iwata stood up abruptly, his tone stern, "We have to go back to Tokyo now! With your current grades, you won't get into the same junior high school as your father! That so-called 'mountain boy' is none of your business!"
Why is this dad so irritable?
Children see the world differently than adults.
Did the meteorite awaken the mountain child?
This is typical of the pressure tactics employed by a domineering father; it's suffocating to watch.
With red eyes, Yuichi shouted "Liar!" and pushed open the door and ran out.
Upon seeing this, Chun Musashi immediately gave chase.
At the edge of the woods, Haru Musashi pulled Yuichi, who was crying, back to his feet.
He crouched down, his eyes filled with tenderness and determination.
"Yuichi, I believe what you said."
Yuichi looked up and stared at him blankly.
Haru Musashi smiled, his gaze deep: "Actually, I was once like you, with no one believing what I said. I was really heartbroken at that time."
"Big brother, have you ever seen a monster too?"
"No."
Haru Musashi clenched his fist and said seriously, "What I encountered was Ultraman. This is our secret."
Musashi is so kind!
Just like in the movie, who would have believed a child had seen the Giant of Light?
This is what it means to be caught in the rain and then want to offer an umbrella to someone else.
Meanwhile, Mr. Iwata sat in the car, looking at the empty passenger seat with a complicated expression.
He took a deep breath and muttered to himself, "Actually, I believe what Yuichi said. Because... I encountered it when I was a child."
The scenes of memory slowly unfold.
Twenty years ago, young Iwata fell and injured his leg in the mountains, leaving him unable to move.
Just when he was in despair, a hairy, horned, humanoid monster with arms that reached past his knees walked over.
He looks like a gorilla.
That was the mountain boy.
It didn't harm Iwata; instead, it found herbs to apply to his wounds and gave him his favorite wild fruit.
The human and the demon spent the most innocent time in this forest.
It wasn't until the adults forcibly took Iwata back to Tokyo, forcing him to forget these "daydreams" and live in the common sense of society, that he finally understood.
The scene shifts back to reality, where Mr. Iwata covers his face in anguish: "Now... I'm doing the same thing to Yuichi that the adults did back then."
Just as Mr. Iwata was filled with regret, he inadvertently discovered a teardrop-shaped wooden carving in the corner of the carriage.
That was a keepsake given to him by the mountain boy years ago!
Before he could react, a sudden gust of wind blew up outside the car window.
A huge dark shadow slowly rose from the depths of the forest.
Sensing the presence of his former friend and seeing Yuichi run away in sorrow, the usually docile Yamawaro suddenly grew to a gigantic size out of anger!
"A massive life response has been detected in the G1 region!"
Inside the command center, alarms blared throughout the sky.
But that's not the worst of it.
The box on the Tujing side was finally forced open!
However, the box contained no high-tech cosmic gifts, only a cold, alien script.
Tsuchikage quickly translated it, his face turning deathly pale.
"Any civilization that opens this box will be destroyed by Gamoran's destructive attack!"
Holy crap! This is a sting operation!
[The "Universal Pig Butchering Scam" has been confirmed! This is a Pandora's box!]
[Aliens: If you dare to open this, it means your technology poses a threat. Just destroy it!]
This is incredibly malicious!
With the opening of the Pandora's Box, the destruction program officially begins!
The camera instantly cuts to the school's activity center.
On the other side, the egg that Tsuneo brought back had already hatched, and a small, docile monster named Mining, who was as short as Pigmon, was playing with the children.
But as a red light descended from the sky, the "biological controller" deployed by the aliens headed straight for Mining.
In the nick of time, a little girl bravely swung a broom and knocked the starfish-shaped controller away!
Mining thus escaped unharmed and huddled in the children's arms, trembling with fear.
However, the other egg, which fell on the edge of the city near the mountain, was not so lucky.
The controller attached itself to the head of the newly hatched monster without any hindrance.
In an instant, the little monster let out a painful roar, and its body expanded wildly at a visible speed in the red light!
His once docile eyes turned bloodthirsty and ferocious.
The fifty-meter-tall war machine covered in sharp bone spurs—Gamoran—makes its grand entrance!
at the same time.
The mountain boy seemed to sense a dangerous aura.
That was the power of the meteorite that recently fell into the mountains!
On the winding mountain road of the Yamawaro Mountains, Mr. Iwata jerked the steering wheel as he searched for Yuichi, who had run away, and the car sped along the road.
Behind his car, the giant mountain child, overwhelmed by a sense of crisis, let out a deafening roar.
Mistaking it for something else, the mountain child thought Iwata was going to abandon Yuichi in the face of danger. So, it waved its huge arms, took heavy steps, and rampaged through the forest, frantically chasing after Iwata's car.
With each step, the earth trembled violently.
In the city center, Gamoran spewed destructive rays, leveling buildings and sending flames soaring into the sky.
Deep in the mountains, the enraged mountain child overturned the boulder blocking its path and approached the road with overwhelming force.
At the same moment, the two enormous creatures went completely berserk!