PDLP Chapter 232 The Celestial Realm Descends: The Terrifying "Purification"
Chapter 232 The Celestial Realm Descends: The Terrifying "Purification"
The core area of East China is on the verge of destruction, and the countdown to its demise is like a heavy hammer blow to everyone's hearts.
Faced with the temptation of "purifying the Earth" and the cost of "destroying East China," XIG demonstrated the absolute execution power of human defense forces in this deadly situation.
"Call the Lightning Team!" Director Di Cheng roared into the communicator, his face ashen.
Now that we've confirmed the energy source is hidden in the eye of the typhoon, there's no need to hesitate. Let's attack first!
However, the wind speed around the eye of the typhoon reached 80 meters per second, which is a terrifying storm exceeding level 18!
Attacking vertically from below would turn fighter jets into sitting ducks.
If you try to force your way through the storm, your fighter jet will be torn to shreds.
Just when they were caught in a dilemma, Lightning captain Wei Weike came up with an almost insane tactic.
"Use the width of the calm zone to invade at a V-shaped angle! Launch missiles as soon as you spot the enemy, then rapidly ascend!"
In front of the screen, my hands flew across the keyboard, frantically calculating feasibility, cold sweat beading on my forehead: "This method can indeed get me closer to the enemy... but, during rapid ascent, the fighter jet will experience more than ten times the force of gravity!"
Ten gigabytes of overload!
For an ordinary human body, this is a terrifying force that could almost crush internal organs!
But there was no sign of backing down in Wei Weike's eyes. He looked directly at the Stone Chamber Commander on the screen and loudly volunteered for battle.
The commander of the stone chamber, his gaze deep, pondered for a moment before decisively ordering, "Lightning Team, attack!"
Holy crap! Ten gigabytes! This could kill someone!
Wei Weike is truly a ruthless person! He was willing to risk his life to protect the city!
Astronauts typically only carry 3-5g on missions; 10g is considered an extreme emergency.
He's practically a superman (Lasu is shocked)
This is the mindset of an ace pilot!
The courage of humanity in the face of adversity—that's the charm of tokusatsu!
Before the mission, Wei Weike asked me a question over the communication channel: "Is that machine really manufactured to purify the atmosphere?"
"If it's just like washing off stains on clothes, there shouldn't be any problem," I replied very carefully.
Fighter jets roared into the sky.
At the eye of the raging typhoon, Lightning-1 was like a small boat on a stormy sea. Its altitude kept decreasing, three thousand meters, two thousand meters... until it kept exceeding the safety limit.
"Aren't we there yet? Wei Weike, come back quickly!" I shouted anxiously in the base.
"emission!"
At the moment of breaking through the limit, Wei Weike finally locked onto the behemoth in the eye of the typhoon and pressed the launch button!
The missile hit its target precisely, the heat source disappeared, and the updraft collapsed. Despite enduring a 10G overload that would have made anyone faint, Lightning One forcefully pulled up its nose and broke out of the storm's radius.
Inside the air base, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the next second, the thick black clouds completely dissipated, and the machine that had been hidden in the eye of the typhoon finally revealed its true form.
It was an extremely large, top-shaped machine with an eerie bronze hue.
The surface is engraved with ancient and intricate patterns.
The commander in the stone chamber stared intently at the large screen and slowly read out the two large characters resembling seal script on the machine's surface: "Celestial Realm".
The celestial realm, though attacked, did not cease functioning; instead, it crashed heavily upside down onto the peninsula below.
The original "purification" mode has stopped, and it has been replaced by even more violent destruction!
It's like a giant vacuum cleaner and hammer, frantically smashing everything around it and sucking it into its body.
"The laundry's done, time for a big clean-up!"
Wei Weike grumbled through gritted teeth from inside the fighter jet.
At this rate, it will enter the capital region with the power to destroy everything in fifteen minutes!
Humanity has exhausted all its means; it is time for the Giant of Light to appear!
I dreamt I handed control of the fighter jet to the AI Pal, pulled out the Sapphire Cone, and shouted in the raging wind, "Gaia—!!!"
A crimson light tore through the sky!
Ultraman Gaia, the guardian of the earth, crashed to the ground with a dull thud!
The battle erupted instantly.
Although the Celestial Realm is a machine, it weighs 84,000 tons, which is equivalent to the mass of two Gaias!
Moreover, the opponent's tankiness is extremely terrifying.
Gaia rushed forward, his heavy fist slamming into the bronze shell of the celestial realm, only to spark a few bursts of fire.
The Celestial Being, though seemingly clumsy, moved with extreme unpredictability. Not only did it dodge attacks one after another, it also used its massive body to ram into Gaia, sending him flying!
Seeing that the heavens were about to rise again and summon the typhoon once more, Gaia did not hesitate and immediately went underground.
Just when everyone thought that Gaia had been smashed into the earth by the heavens.
The next second, the earth shattered!
Gaia burst forth from directly beneath the celestial realm with an extremely ferocious battle tornado, its hands gripping the bottom of the celestial realm like iron clamps, forcefully tearing out its most core power center!
"BOOM—!!!"
The celestial realm, having lost its core, was shattered into countless fragments in a violent explosion, utterly destroyed.
[Such a brutal disassembly technique! A truly hardcore teardown!]
Gaia's power is truly unmatched!
The washing machine is now completely ruined.
The action scenes were crisp and clean, without any unnecessary dragging—it was exhilarating!
The battle is over, but the aftereffects of the story are only just beginning to unfold.
In the conference room of the aerial base, everyone gathered around a table, looking at the only remaining stone slab after the celestial explosion. The patterns on the slab were ancient and mysterious, exuding a profound sense of historical dislocation.
"If what Wei Weike said is true, this is a giant washing machine and vacuum cleaner..."
With a furrowed brow, I slowly voiced my speculation, "So, after purifying the air and cleaning the earth, what's next...?"
"It's like planting seeds."
Shi Shi continued.
"Sowing seeds?" Everyone was stunned.
I looked up in my dream: "It's either the invaders' food, or... a new life form."
In an instant, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence. Staff Officer Ye Qian was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
Holy crap! This is terrifying when you think about it!
[Washing clothes (purifying the air) – Spring cleaning (cleaning up the city and humanity) – Seeding (alien colonization)!]
Is this some kind of complete ecological colonization production line?
Can environmental protection and alien invasion be combined?
[This annihilation-summoning body is a bit too overpowered!]
Then, the ending theme song began to play.
The music played, but the visuals didn't stop playing.
I dreamt that I stood side by side with Commander Ishimura in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the command room, gazing at the distant sunset.
"When I heard that the Celestials were going to purify Earth's atmosphere..." Commander Shishi suddenly spoke, his voice soft yet carrying a power that struck straight to the soul, "I originally intended to oppose your attack."
I was stunned for a moment, and looked at him in surprise.
Commander Ishimura turned his head, his deep gaze fixed on Imu's eyes: "You should understand the feelings of the person who created that machine, right? Even if it means sacrificing humanity, you want to restore the Earth's environment..."
My subconscious thought was to retort, "No, I..."
"Isn't that right?"
Commander Ishimura interrupted him with a smile, then turned away, leaving the episode with a meaningful silhouette.
With this resounding rhetorical question, the screen went black, and the end credits song suddenly began to play!
Episode 7, the end!
As the series concluded, online discussion forums for tokusatsu (special effects films) exploded. Countless viewers, unable to calm down, flocked to online communities and forums, engaging in frenzied debriefing and discussion.
On the official Baidu Tieba forum for "Ultraman Gaia", a post titled "[In-depth analysis of the Celestial Scheme: The ultimate open conspiracy of the Destruction Summoning Entity, a dead end for human ethics!]" quickly rose to the top of the trending searches within just ten minutes.
[OP's Logical Genius]: Guys, this episode really burned out my CPU! Everyone says the Celestial Realm was created by aliens, but I have an extremely terrifying theory! Considering the previous plot, have you ever thought that this machine that wipes out humanity for "environmental protection" might not have been created by those aliens who brought about destruction, but by humans!
[The dancer on the keyboard on the first floor]: Holy crap?! Man-made? OP, don't scare me! Destroying itself?
[2nd Floor Logic Genius] replied to [1st Floor]: Look closely at the hints in the show! The seal script on the surface of the celestial realm and the shapes of bronze artifacts are clearly products of Earth's civilization! What if the Natural Controller was created in an ancient human timeline that had reached a certain level of development? When Earth's environment becomes irreversibly deteriorating, humanity might very well go to extremes and create such a thing to forcibly purify the Earth!
[3rd Floor Believer of Light]: Absolutely! It matches up! This is too desperate! So the Annihilation Entity didn't even need to do anything itself; it simply threw the extreme weapons created by humans onto Earth! This is a perfect open conspiracy!
[Rational Analyst on Floor 4]: This is not just a physical attack, but also a poisoning of the mind! Everyone, recall the question the Stone Chamber Commander asked me about my dream at the end. If this machine truly came to protect Earth's environment, then the defense force destroying it means that humanity, in order to survive, has personally strangled the hope of healing Earth?
[5th Floor, Just a Passerby]: Isn't this Fujimiya's philosophy?! If Fujimiya were here, he would never let the Lightning Team open fire! He would even protect the Celestial Realm and watch it blast the entire East China region to smithereens, just for a breath of fresh air!
[6th Floor, All-Night Cultivation Party]: The script is getting more and more in-depth. In Gu Nan's previous films, such as *Ultraman Tiga* and *Dyna*, the villains mostly relied on force to invade. But the Destruction Summoning Entity in *Gaia* is simply a master of manipulating people's hearts and ethics! By throwing out this "free environmental pie," it is forcing the human camp to split!
[6th Floor, Plot-Focused Enthusiast, Heaven Reaches Above]: This is why I think the plot depth of *Gaia* is unique. Faced with such an intractable environmental deadlock, a shortcut suddenly falls from the sky, at the cost of sacrificing some people. Anyone would hesitate! My Dream managed to solve it this time with intuition and a firm humanistic stance, but what about next time? Is the trolley problem really that easy to solve? Is the price truly bearable?
[8th Floor: Protecting the Environment is Everyone's Responsibility]: To be honest, when I saw the part about how typhoons can purify the atmosphere, I wavered for a moment... If it weren't for the loss of life, this machine would be a miracle.
[9th Floor Logic Genius]: That's the scariest part! If anyone in humanity's upper echelons wavers, thinking that sacrificing some people for Earth's immortality is acceptable, then humanity will embark on a path of creating their own fathers and killing each other. The Destruction-Inducing Entity won without even lifting a finger! My current stance is still firm, but I want to see how the red and blue lights will fare in the face of increasingly extreme choices!
The clash of ideas on the internet is like adding fuel to a fire.
An ancient bronze machine and an extreme environmental storm have brutally exposed the complexities and weaknesses of human nature, plunging countless people into deeper discussions.