sbdcsierra Chapter 225 My Dream in the Sky, The Collapse of the Wave Function!
Chapter 225 My Dream in the Sky, The Collapse of the Wave Function!
For tokusatsu fans who have been completely captivated by the vast world and hard science fiction setting of "Ultraman Gaia," a week feels like an eternity.
Friday night at 8 PM.
The live stream rooms on major video platforms were completely overwhelmed by tens of millions of viewers the moment the countdown ended.
Last week's episode three finale, with its mysterious blue giant instantly defeating the metal monster and leaving behind a solitary silhouette, pushed the suspense of the entire series to its climax. Everyone was on tenterhooks, eager to know what would happen next.
[It's here! It's finally airing! This past week has felt like an eternity!]
Who exactly is the blue Ultraman? Is he friend or foe?
Is that the handsome guy in the Reuters photos?
I want to see the latest episode!
As the screen went dark, accompanied by a crisp tapping sound, the title of the fourth episode of "Ultraman Gaia," titled "My Dream in the Sky," slowly appeared.
The film begins without any lengthy backstory; the scene cuts directly to an endless expanse of yellow sand.
A fierce wind whipped up sand and dust, and Gao Womeng stood alone in the desert.
Not far in front of him, the giant, a blend of deep blue and silver, stood silently.
I raised my head, looking at the giant before me who exuded an aura of coldness and aloofness, and shouted out the question that was on the minds of all the viewers: "Another Ultraman...you, who are you?"
"Are they our friends or our enemies?"
The wind howled.
The blue giant did not answer; he simply lowered his head slightly, glanced at my dream, and nodded very slightly.
Then, he turned around in the sandstorm, his massive body transforming into a deep blue light and disappearing without a trace.
[They're leaving already? That's so aloof!]
What does this nod mean? Does it acknowledge that they're friends, or is it just a simple greeting?
Wait, something's not right! Gaia was clearly there at the end of the last episode, so why is only my dream human form here?
[I suspect it's a space of consciousness? Just like in the first episode, their radiance resonated in the quantum realm!]
[It's also possible that they encountered it in the desert after the transformation ended.]
The camera then shifts back to the XIG air base.
Accompanied by a rapid alarm, the words "GAME OVER" flashed on the screen.
Gao Gamu took off his helmet and left the flight simulator, letting out a long sigh.
"Hey, this isn't an amusement park."
The correspondent, Li Muzi, walked over and looked at him with annoyance. "Can you please not use that flight simulator so often?"
While operating the control panel, I earnestly explained, "In actual combat, you'll need to adjust the speed, right?"
Mu Zi rolled her eyes and retorted without hesitation, "Real combat? Please, you're not a pilot."
In her mind, there was no possibility that a bookworm like me would participate in combat, let alone a pilot.
These words struck a nerve with Meng. He stopped what he was doing, his tone tinged with helplessness: "That's true, but I..."
The camera gives an extremely exquisite close-up of a profile here.
The bright sunlight outside the window shone on the glass, reflecting perfectly on the profile of my dream.
Half of it is in the light, and half is in the mirror.
He turned his head, looked at the boundless blue sky outside the window, his eyes filled with longing and obsession for the sky, and murmured softly, "I still think it's better up in the sky."
The interplay of light and shadow directly reveals my yearning to fly in the sky.
[Mu Zi, that's so hurtful. My dream is supposed to be Ultraman, how come he can't fly a plane?]
[If you don't understand, why does the Earth Destroyer have to go to the sky? Isn't it better to just stay on the ground?]
[Hahaha, a scientist who doesn't want to be a pilot isn't a good Ultraman!]
[How can you crash a plane if you don't want to be a pilot? How can you get sponsorships if you don't crash?]
[Exactly! Even Light Chaser Animation Studios sells airplane models; they definitely need the main character to appear to drive up the prices!]
At that moment, the base alarm suddenly went off.
Georgie Leland, seeing Imon and Muzi rushing into the command room, joked, "What a coincidence that you two are both late."
Mu Zi immediately distanced herself from the situation, coldly retorting, "You guessed wrong, I have no interest in children."
The large screen lit up, and Commander Shi and Staff Officer Ye Qian stared solemnly ahead.
"An anomaly has occurred at point 414, C3."
The images of the affected areas displayed on the screen instantly sent chills down everyone's spines.
Just minutes ago, in the bustling seaside commercial district of Jinghai City.
Under the clear sky, everything seemed normal.
Pedestrians walked in twos and threes on the road, and everything seemed no different from usual.
However, at this very moment...
A girl suddenly spat out the bread in her mouth and started cursing:
"That's strange, why is sand falling from the sky?"
Fine sand began to fall from the sky.
Accompanied by a tooth-grinding collapse sound, the distant skyscrapers, like sand sculptures, rapidly turned to sand and crumbled in the breeze!
In just a few minutes, a tall building was completely transformed into a desolate desert ruin!
Holy crap! That's terrifyingly destructive power!
[Turning buildings into a desert? What kind of supernatural force could this be?]
[The defense forces didn't even have time to react before several high-rise buildings were gone. The sense of oppression was overwhelming!]
As more and more buildings turn to rubble, the events here have also attracted the attention of XIG.
In the command center, Staff Officer Ye Qian stared at the ruins on the screen, muttering to himself, "What on earth happened?"
I stared intently at the screen, my brain racing, and immediately came up with a theory: "I think this city has probably experienced a collapse at the molecular level."
"I want to know the exact reason!"
"I'm so anxious," said Staff Officer Ye Qian.
Commander Shi Shi made a decisive decision: "XIG, move out immediately!"
Accompanied by rousing launch music, the massive Mir transport plane carrying the Lightning team roared towards the scene of the incident.
Director Di Cheng took my dream with him to the scene.
Upon arriving at the scene, an extremely bizarre and enormous creature was floating above the ruins.
It appears as a translucent jellyfish, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden, with blue ripples along its body edges, as if it did not belong to this world.
What kind of monster is this? It looks like a holographic projection.
[Jellyfish?]
[It doesn't look like a physical entity! Is it another mechanical anomaly?]
Why does it feel like there aren't any normal monsters in Gaia?
[Is the Mirage Monster Falton similar to a monster without a physical form? How do you defeat Gaia?]
[A lot of tanks have arrived, but why aren't these ground escort troops attacking?]
Preventing further casualties and evacuating the public is always the military's top priority. The military is there to protect its own government and people; when it is clear that people are still alive, the first priority should be evacuating the civilians before attacking any unknown targets.
The crowd has been evacuated.
Lightning Team Captain Wei Weike received the attack order: "All personnel, enter attack mode!"
The Blitzkrieg fighters launched precise air-to-air missiles.
However, a desperate scene unfolded.
The missile pierced straight through the jellyfish's body and exploded in the air some distance away!
The monster was completely unharmed!
"The monster has disappeared?!"
"At the two o'clock position!"
The jellyfish monster seemed to teleport, constantly flashing and changing positions in the air.
"How could this be? Doesn't it have a physical form?"
Wei Weike was shocked.
Inside the Peace, Director Di Cheng turned to look at my dream.
My hands moved across the keyboard like afterimages, while complex data streams danced across the screen.
"Discontinuous existence..." My pupils contracted sharply. "Could it be a quantum leap?!"
"Damn it, there's no way to aim at the monster!" came the anxious voice of Team Lightning over the communication channel.
I made a decisive judgment: "Under these circumstances, attacking is completely pointless! We must quickly devise a new strategy!"
Upon hearing the report at the base, the commander of the Stone Chamber issued a retreat order without hesitation.
But Staff Officer Ye Qian looked worried. He looked at the stone chamber and said, "Isn't it a bit too cautious to decide on a battle plan based on that boy's opinion?"
Commander Shi Shi's gaze was sharp, and he firmly refuted such concerns: "You should know that he is a professional scientific researcher."
[Commander Shi Shi's approach is called "trusting those you employ and not employing those you don't trust!"]
[Focus on ability, not age]
[Quantum leap? This touches on a blind spot in my knowledge! Meng, please explain this to me!]
This monster is practically overpowered; it's immune to all physical attacks and has maxed out its evasion.
Upon returning to base, everyone immediately convened an emergency meeting.
The large screen displays an analysis chart of the jellyfish monster.
I dreamt I was standing on the stage, explaining with a serious expression: "This monster is a wave-like life form."
He pulled up the scanning screen from the ultra-precise instrument: "You can see this interference phenomenon on the screen, a series of radio wave layers..."
Staff Officer Ye Qian was completely confused and couldn't help but interrupt, "Excuse me, could you just tell us the conclusion directly?"
I took a deep breath and explained this extremely hardcore science fiction concept in the simplest terms: "In short, this is a wave-like creature. This creature exists in many places simultaneously, and what we see is merely a shadow of it. It is a hyperspace life form possessing extremely microscopic properties within the realm of physics!"
The conference room was deathly silent.
"Does it mean something like another dimension?" Advisor Ye Qian asked.
"Yes, in the realm of classical physics. However, if we apply it to the macroscopic world, we can launch an attack on it." A confident glint shone in my eyes.
"What we need to do now is interfere with the resistance waves it emits, confining its existence to a single point!"
[Holy crap! This setting? A cat-like monster?!]
[It is omnipresent as long as it is not observed; once interfered with, it must collapse into a single entity!]
[Quantum mechanics, huh?! And you still say it's not some kind of mechanical weirdness?!]
Why does Gaia's dungeon seem so difficult? The previous episodes were all against highly skilled opponents!
[Those who have the funds to follow the light are truly wealthy.]
[Defeat magic with magic, defeat science fiction with science!]
The commander in the stone chamber asked in a deep voice, "Is it possible in reality?"
I smiled slightly, appearing confident: "I've already completed all the preparations on my way back."
Six hundred and sixty-six! Is this what top-tier logistics scheduling looks like?!
[He arranged the entire plan and logistics on the way back; no wonder he's a top expert at Alchemy Star!]
The camera cuts to the laboratory at Seongnam University.
Sato (my roommate, I won't change my name), who had just escaped from the disaster site, looked at his classmates busily working in the lab with a shocked expression.
"What is this?"
Without looking up, the student replied, "This is a microwave irradiation device for flight that Meng asked us to make."
With time running out, Sato immediately put on her social butterfly act, rushing out of the lab to call for backup: "Go and gather the others to help!"
Faced with the engineering students' doubts, Sato shouted, "After all, it was Alchemy Star who asked us to do this, how could we refuse! Besides, all of this is for peace!"
[It's on fire! College students are saving the world!]
[Are these really the top students from Tsinghua and Peking Universities? This episode looks like a promotional video specially made by Jinghai High School!]
This is the bond of humanity! For peace, everyone mobilize!
However, at the air base, Lightning Team's captain, Wei Weike, scoffed at my dream's plan.
"They're actually letting students build new weapons?"
Wei Weike looked disdainful. "What I'm worried about now is, will this thing even work?"
I Dream retorted without backing down: "That's a quantum interference wave irradiation device that's effective at annihilating monsters! Using the light particle accelerator and its theories in the university research lab, it can be easily manufactured. This is Alchemy Star's design; it can be completed in just 30 minutes!"
Wei Weike sneered and mocked mercilessly, "It's just like a pizza delivery."
The two then got into a heated argument over which fighter jet the device should be installed on.
Wei Weike requested that it be installed on his own SS serial number, but I Meng insisted that the EX serial number was more suitable.
In the end, Wei Weike made a firm decision: "In that case, I'll drive the EX!"
[The arrogant Wei Weike is so cute~~]
It's actually quite normal for frontline personnel to distrust laboratory products.
My dream also involves a bad temper; I don't tolerate him at all.
[Hopefully this device will give the monster a big surprise!]
At that moment, KCB TV reporter Jing Ling and her cameraman were broadcasting live from the edge of the ruins.
"Desertification has stopped, but XIG has not yet come up with an effective countermeasure..."
After the live broadcast ended, Jing Ling looked at the devastated ruins and felt heavy-hearted.
The moment she turned around, her gaze suddenly froze.
On a nearby ruin, stood a man dressed in a black leather jacket.
The wind whipped the hem of his trench coat.
Finally, his face was fully revealed.
This is the first screen appearance of a certain B-king!
His face was cold and stern, and his eyes revealed a contemptuous disdain and unfathomable arrogance.
It was that mysterious man who had a brief encounter with me in the desert, who transformed into a blue giant—Fujimiya!
Jing Ling froze, then quickly turned to the cameraman and shouted, "Quick! Film over there!"
However, when the cameraman turned the lens, the man in black had vanished without a trace, leaving only an empty ruin.
[It's that arrogant guy! He's here, he's here!]
This is practically an explicit implication!
[Fujimiya has finally shown his face! His aura is so cool!]
Why is he here? Is he observing humanity's incompetence?
Is the secret of Ultraman Blue finally about to be revealed?
With the plot progressing to this point, the first two-thirds of the entire fourth episode have been perfectly set up.
From a suspenseful opening to the oppressive desertification of the city; from the defense force's helpless predicament to the unveiling of a hardcore quantum mechanics setting.
Multiple storylines unfold simultaneously, with a pace so fast it's almost suffocating.
Now, the time for a counterattack has finally arrived.
Accompanied by rousing background music, the twilight was as red as blood.
The EX-class aircraft, equipped with the "quantum interference wave irradiation device" made by the college students themselves, flew towards the battlefield once again, escorted by the Mir, against the backdrop of the red sunset!