PDLP Chapter 255: Lilia in the Labyrinth, Facing Zhang Yi
Chapter 255: Lilia in the Labyrinth, Facing Zhang Yi
A whole week has passed since the breathtaking red-blue showdown in episode 18 of Ultraman Gaia.
Throughout the week, the online debate about "protecting the Earth or protecting humanity" has been almost non-stop, and viewers' appetites have been thoroughly whetted, all eagerly anticipating what kind of grand science fiction plot Gu Nan will present next.
Friday at 8 PM sharp.
Countless viewers clicked on the video platform on time, and as the exciting opening theme ended, the nineteenth episode of "Ultraman Gaia," titled "Lilia in the Labyrinth," officially premiered.
However, to everyone's surprise, the episode opened with a chilling atmosphere of suspense and horror.
The first part is the conversation between Commander Shishi and Director Di Cheng, which reveals that Li Muzi is about to end her term at the air base and will return to the Geo base.
Then, the camera focused on Mu Zi.
Inside the air base command center, Li Muzi, who was on duty in the early hours of the morning, was struggling to stay awake.
The surroundings were so quiet that only the faint ticking of the instruments could be heard.
Suddenly, a large amount of peculiar energy of unknown origin appeared above the base.
Under the silent onslaught of this energy, Li Muzi's eyes gradually lost focus and slowly closed, her consciousness instantly falling into a bizarre dream.
The color tone of the image became cold and dark.
In her dream, Li Muzi, as a child, walks alone on a misty street, searching for friends.
"Where did everyone go...? Is nobody here...?"
The little girl cried out helplessly, "Where did they all go? Don't leave me alone..."
Just then, a little girl dressed in a dark Gothic Lolita dress, with a face so pale it was almost bloodless, appeared silently in front of her.
"Who are you?" the little girl asked menacingly, tilting her head. "Play with me."
The scene abruptly shifted, and Li Muzi woke up with a start, gasping for breath. She found herself back in her personal dormitory at the base.
Even more chilling was the old photo that appeared on the computer screen in front of her—a childhood photo of her with the eerie little girl from her dream!
"Lilia..."
Li Muzi uncontrollably murmured that name.
The screen was instantly filled with a barrage of comments.
Holy crap! Showing me this in the middle of the night?!
[Protect yourself! Protect yourself! Protect yourself! Why did this scene suddenly turn into a horror movie?!]
[This little girl's eyes are so creepy!]
[We just finished apocalyptic action, and now this episode's switching to psychological thriller, huh?]
Is this Lilia human or a demon?
The plot gave the audience no chance to breathe.
The piercing alarm shattered the tranquility of the base.
Intense hyperspace fluctuations appeared in the sky, and the phantom of the monster Shaigomezad descended upon the city through a massive wormhole.
"Team Lightning, move out!"
Captain Wei Weike led two team members, piloting their fighter jets into the air and rapidly heading towards the area where the wormhole was located.
However, as the fighter jet approached the wormhole, a large number of golden fragments emitting an eerie light poured out like a torrential rain, instantly covering the fighter jet's fuselage.
"The instrument is not working properly!"
Wei Weike loudly reported to the leader, "At this rate, the Lightning teams will all collide! Requesting the use of radar remote navigation!"
Inside the command center, Li Muzi quickly took over the operation: "Change the radio frequency!"
"Radar remote navigation initiated!"
Under the calm and professional guidance of Li Muzi and Qiao Ji, the two fighter jets successfully corrected their flight paths and escaped the danger zone.
However, Li Muzi, who was in charge of guiding the Kitada team, once again fell into that strange state of absentmindedness.
"Not done yet..." That eerie child's voice kept echoing in the earphones, "Play with me..."
Li Muzi's eyes were fixed on the screen, but she seemed to see nothing. Her mouth numbly uttered incorrect commands: "Direction change, thirty li to the left!"
"What?!"
With a cry of alarm, Kitada's fighter jet, due to misguided guidance, instantly went out of control, collided with Okawara's plane, and spun towards the ground.
Although the pilot ejected and survived, the fighter jet crashed completely, and Kitada and Okawara were seriously injured.
After the plane crash, the air pressure in the command center dropped to freezing point.
Captain Wei Weike angrily pushed open the door and glared at Li Muzi.
"It was my fault……"
Li Muzi lowered her head, her voice trembling, "I suddenly lost consciousness and went into a daze."
"Stunned?!" Wei Weike completely exploded. "While we were risking our lives to fly?!"
Faced with this extremely serious mistake, the Stone Chamber Commander's face turned ashen, and he sternly delivered his verdict: "Details will be explained later. You may step down now. Making the correct judgment in the face of a situation is our duty. Li Muzi, I am now issuing you a ground-based disciplinary action."
The comments section was now divided into two camps.
Standing still on the battlefield can kill your teammates!
But Li Muzi is clearly being controlled by the monster!
Is this monster another mind control type?
[That doesn't make sense. Why are the pilots of the three planes near the wormhole unharmed, yet they can still affect a distant air base?]
The scene shifts to the ground.
A series of car accidents have occurred in the city, and many survivors have said that they suddenly became distracted while driving and saw incredible hallucinations.
In the air base, Goga Yume carefully analyzed the golden particles attached to the fighter jet using a computer.
"An unexpected characteristic was discovered."
In my dream, I looked at the data on the screen: "When these particles react with electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, they emit a special kind of electrical energy. This energy stimulates the neurites in human brain cells, thereby inducing extremely realistic hallucinations!"
Georgie immediately realized that this energy reaction had also been detected in the communication lines.
Li Muzi was completely bewitched by the monster's radio waves!
Realizing that Li Muzi was likely in danger, I immediately asked Wei Weike, who had just been angry, to go to the ground to search for her.
After some persuasion, Wei Weike finally agreed.
When Wei Weike arrived at Li Muzi's residence, he only saw her older sister, Lüzi.
"Li Muzi...she's always been alone since she was little."
Midori's eyes showed heartache. "She's not like she seems. Actually, she's very timid. She was always sick as a child, and she would get a fever whenever there was an activity in elementary school. So she doesn't have any close friends and always cries because of her loneliness."
Midori looked up, gazing worriedly out the window: "She said she's always wanted to go to an amusement park."
……
Meanwhile, Captain Tian Dayan of the Falcon Team has led his team to implement comprehensive radio control in the target area in an attempt to force the mastermind behind the scenes to show up.
In a dilapidated amusement park, Wei Weike and Lüzi finally found Li Muzi.
However, the scene before them sent chills down their spines.
Li Muzi stood alone in front of the carousel, smiling happily at the air: "I'm playing with Lilia. I'm going to Lilia's house to play later."
"Where did that damn thing come from?!"
Wei Weike shouted loudly, trying to rush over!
Crackling sounds!
A golden wall of electric energy appeared and knocked Wei Weike down!
"There's nothing, Lilia!" Midori anxiously tried to help Weiwei up.
"You're lying!" Li Muzi whirled around, her eyes flashing with an eerie red light. "Lilia is right here!"
As soon as she finished speaking, dazzling golden energy beams suddenly gathered from Li Muzi's hands and shot straight into the sky!
In the light, the pale-faced little girl Lilia materialized and appeared before the two of them.
Meanwhile, in the sky, the monster Shaigomezad II, which had been forced to hide due to radio wave control, finally revealed its ferocious true form.
I arrived just in time, roared and raised the Blue Sapphire Cone. A red light flashed, and Ultraman Gaia landed heavily outside the amusement park!
The battle erupted instantly, but Gaia found herself in a fierce struggle.
By constantly absorbing Li Muzi's spiritual energy, Shaygomezad became exceptionally powerful, and each of his attacks was accompanied by fluctuations of a distorted mind.
【Oh my gosh! This is terrifying!】
【Gaia, stand up! This monster is disgusting!】
[The mind control type is the hardest to fight; fighting it is just hurting Li Muzi!]
Help! This little girl's laughter is giving me the creeps.
So what the heck is this little girl?!
"Don't run away from the memories of the past!"
Midori screamed hoarsely at the nearly irrational Li Muzi, "Lilia is the name of the doll you accidentally lost! Have you forgotten?!"
These words were like a thunderclap, severing the fog in Li Muzi's mind.
"You weren't here at this amusement park when you were a child!"
Li Muzi was stunned, but she answered mechanically:
"You're lying! I was definitely here... I was even playing with my friends here..."
"This is just your hallucination! It's because you couldn't go hiking as a child, and that regret is causing your current hallucination!"
Looking at the eerie little girl in front of her, Li Muzi finally pieced together the fragments of her memory.
There was no mysterious friend at all; it was just a rag doll she used to relieve her loneliness in her childhood!
"Lilia... is just a doll..."
Li Muzi's eyes instantly regained their clarity.
As the memories were corrected, the illusion shattered, and the eerie little girl turned to ashes in the air.
With the transmission of spiritual energy completely severed, Shaygomezad let out a painful howl, his strength greatly diminished.
Gaia seized this fleeting opening on the battlefield, and its head emitted a bright red light.
"Photon Streamlines!"
An extremely violent torrent of red energy erupted and struck the monster's body with pinpoint accuracy.
Amidst the deafening explosion, this demon that toyed with human psychological trauma was utterly destroyed.
As the sun set, Li Muzi smiled with relief and walked out of the maze that had imprisoned her childhood memories.
As the melodious ending theme song played, episode nineteen officially came to an end.
However, online discussions erupted instantly, like oil being poured onto a hot fire.
Analysis posts about this episode have also appeared on various forums and social media platforms.
"This episode is a bit interesting. Although I was still looking forward to what kind of grander main storyline showdown would happen after episode 18, the Light Chaser Pictures crew served us a psychological thriller right off the bat, which is a bit uncomfortable~"
"But, brothers, strip away that scary horror exterior, the core message of this episode is actually very sophisticated. Why would a rag doll that doesn't exist in the real world suddenly appear before your eyes? Why would an amusement park you've never been to leave such a deep impression on you? Because behind all these illusions lies a morbid fantasy born from unfulfilled childhood regrets."
"The monster Shaigomezad is just a trigger; it represents a kind of temptation, a force that makes you unable to extricate yourself from the regrets of the past. Li Muzi has always been ashamed of her loneliness in her childhood, and the monster took advantage of this loneliness to create a false 'friend' for her."
"This is actually a metaphor for many people in our real lives—how many people are trapped in the maze they've created because they can't escape the shadows of the past?"
"Actually, this episode was a complete sublimation of Li Muzi's character. Her unbearable memories were once again awakened, and she experienced a breakdown."
"But no matter what unhappiness and troubles we have in the past, what we should do now is to seize the present moment."
"Don't let yourself get overly consumed by memories; that's the only way to overcome your inner demons and defeat the monsters!"