"Isn't it a joke to ask me to be the savior of mankind?"
Asuka Shin, who was wearing regular clothes, put one hand under his head and held up the transformation device - the flashing sword with the other hand. He looked over and over. Behind him were the lush green grass and bright flowers, and the sky was filled with endless stars and bright colors.
Silver Moon.
But none of these could attract his attention. At this time, all the eyes of Feiniao Xin were focused on the small transformer in his hand. It was less than half a palm in size, but it contained endless power and could actually transform a person up to one meter.
A man who was so tall and weighed a hundred pounds turned into an Ultraman who was more than fifty meters tall and weighed more than 40,000 tons.
It's really incredible.
When I was watching, I felt incredible; after experiencing it myself, I felt even more incredible.
So small, but can become so big.
Um?
Where have you heard this before?
But where?
Why can't I remember it?
Asuka thought hard, racking his brains to recall where on earth he had heard such words, and why he had heard such words?
I just became Ultraman today, why could I hear similar familiar words before?
As I thought about it, the starry sky in front of me seemed to become wider, and the stars were so dense that they formed a river, spanning the starry sky, extending from one end of infinity to the other end of infinity...
"Dad, why do you want to go to the universe?" A young boy raised his head, looked at the vast starry sky, and asked the tall father beside him curiously.
"Because the universe is so big, I want to see what's in the Milky Way."
"But aren't you scared of such a huge universe? I'm scared even if I'm alone in the room."
"Don't be afraid, Xin," the father raised his hand, stroked the child's head, and said softly: "Although human beings and even this planet called Earth are very small compared to the boundless universe, human beings have a kind of
The unique driving force is greater than the universe."
"Really? Where is it?"
The child has lowered his head and looked at his small body, as if trying to find something bigger than the house or the universe.
"It is in everyone's heart." The father finally turned his head, looking at the child with a smile on his face, and said: "The human heart is broader than the universe, wider than..."
This familiar face that has appeared in dreams countless times is actually right in front of me at this moment. I can feel his warm hands gently caressing me, I can see the reflection of children in his pupils, and I can also hear...
"dad--"
The flying bird murmured like a dream, and a drop of crystal tear reflected the bright starry sky above, slowly flowed down from the corner of the closed eyes, and finally dripped on the green grass and penetrated into the fragrant soil.
It's so beautiful, so real. Although I vaguely know that this is just a dream, I don't want to wake up. I just want to stay a little longer and sleep a little longer.
But Asukaxin did not wake up, but the dream was broken.
A large number of stars in the vast starry sky above our heads suddenly 'went out', leaving a black round hole in the bright starry sky, like a loophole in a river, causing the surrounding stars to slide towards this black hole, falling in like an abyss and never coming out again.
, and the falling speed is getting faster and faster, more and more stars are falling in, forming a vortex shape.
"What's going on?"
Asukaxin was shocked and turned to look at his father subconsciously. But as soon as he turned around, he saw Asuka flying up and flying towards the black vortex. In just a few seconds, the black vortex expanded dozens of times.
Occupying most of the sky, there were only a few stars left that were originally countless, and they were all in the process of spinning and falling. It was only a matter of time before they were sucked in.
"dad!"
Asuka Shin shouted, stood up, and stretched out his hand, trying to catch his father who was sucked away by the terrifying black vortex, while Asuka Kazuma also stretched out his hand towards him, shouting: "Shin——"
The voice was still blurting out, but Asuka Yima's tall body seemed to be unable to withstand the terrifying gravity, and was torn into countless pieces, but the flesh and blood fragments were emitting a golden light, as if they were made of gold.
"dad--"
Asuka Shin sat up suddenly while shouting, with tears still in the corners of his eyes and anxiety in his eyes. His hands were still reaching forward to grab something, but there was only the light from the holographic imaging system in front of him, and the virtual starry sky above his head.
, there was artificial grass beneath him, and everything told him that this was just a dream.
He is now 22 years old, not 10 years old; this is the sanatorium on the Mars base, not the hillside behind his home on Earth; his father was not sucked away by the black vortex, but disappeared into the light...
Didi didi!
Didi didi!
The rapid sound rang out, which brought Asuka Shin's consciousness back from his dream state. He hurriedly took out the WIT and opened it quickly. Before he could see the picture on the screen, he already said:
"I am a bird!"
"Team Asuka," a female voice came from the speaker, and what appeared on the screen was Yumimura Ryo of the Super Victory Team. At this moment, she was neatly dressed, wearing an anti-German space suit and a flight helmet.
, and looking at the background, it was obvious that he was on a flight seat, and he said with a serious face: "I am Yumimura Ryo from the Super Victory Team."
"Ah, it's senior," Asukaxin opened his mouth and yawned widely, then casually wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "What's the matter?"
"Receive the Victory Condor." Yumimura Ryo frowned as he looked at Asuka Shin, who looked like he was not awake, loose and lazy. This is actually an outstanding student of Zero Flight School?
This made Yumimura Ryo, who was also the winner of the outstanding student at that time, quite unable to accept it. Suddenly, she felt that the honor she had always been proud of was no longer as valuable.
Just like Zhenzong's enthronement of Zen, after Sima took the oath, the levels of Taishan and Luoshui were lowered.
"Victory Condor? Receive?"
These two words put together made Feiniao Xin unable to close his mouth and said with a beaming expression: "For us?"
"yes!"
Yumimura Ryo said angrily: "Come over quickly."
"Yes!" Asuka Shin jumped up, making Yumimura take a deep breath, and then hung up the communication.
There was still a smile on Asuka Shin's face, but there was no smile in his eyes. After standing there for a while, he turned off the holographic image, put away the transformer, then went to the locker room and changed into the uniform of the Space Adventure Team.
, put on the Brest pistol, held the flight helmet, and strode towards the tarmac.
From a distance, I saw a group of people surrounding the Victory Condor. As the latest fighter jet of TPC, due to various reasons, the output of the Victory Condor is extremely low, and it is still in single digits now, and they are all concentrated at the headquarters base.
People in other places can only see its majesty from the news and internal newspapers.
But now, I actually saw the newest Victory Condor in a corner like Mars.
This was incredible, so as soon as the Victory Condor landed, it immediately attracted great attention, and many ground crews and pilots gathered around it.
"Give it, give it!" Feiniao Xin hurried over and squeezed in, saying as if to show off: "This is our plane."
"Ah, it's for the Space Adventure Team."
"It's really good."
"It's normal, after all..."
Asuka Shin listened to the envious words around him, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter. It wasn't until he squeezed out of the crowd that he stopped smiling, looked serious, and faced Yumimura Yoshiaki, who was standing beside the Victory Condor with his arms folded.
He bowed and said: "Senior Liang, Feiniaoxin is here to report."
"Call me Yumimura," Yumimura Ryo returned the greeting, then picked up the receipt, slapped it on Asuka Shin's body, and said, "If there's no problem, just sign it."
"Yeah," Feiniao Xin nodded seriously, then looked up and down, left and right, and said, "No problem, I'll sign right now."
As he spoke, he picked up the pen and was about to sign, but as soon as the pen tip touched the paper, he stopped, raised his head, and said, "Shouldn't the captain sign it?"
"What about Captain Chiba?"
"Uh, Captain...he hasn't come back from a business trip yet."
"Is there anyone else from your space adventure team here?"
"Uh..." Feiniao scratched his head with the cap of his pen and said, "No!"
The captain has gone to Pluto, while the vice-captain and others are on Earth.
"Then sign it quickly."
"Oh!" Asukaxin then started to sign and muttered: "Since it is for us, why not let others drive over? By the way, why should it be sent to Mars? This fighter plane is a three-plane
It’s a combination, just the two of us, can we drive it together?”
Swish, swish, swish!
Asuka Shin was signing quickly and mouthing out words quickly. Yumimura Ryo's head was getting big after hearing this, but with so many people around, he couldn't lose his grace. If he lost the members of the Super Victory Team, he could only squeeze out a little bit.
Smiling, he said: "This is an order from the headquarters. As for whether it can be opened, that's it..."
But before he finished speaking, the WIT on Yumimura Ryo's waist rang, causing Yumimura to quickly lower his head to take out the WIT, and took the opportunity to turn around so that he would not read the Asuka Letter, and opened it.
It was Xibi Gang who helped the captain.
"team leader!"
"Ryo," Gosuke Kibi said with a serious face: "I just received information from PWI. While they were trying to repair the Cosmic Network communication satellite deployed in Pluto's orbit, they found a message that was suspected to be sent by Lomus 3.
, but the damage is too severe, so far only a number of suspected coordinates have been analyzed, and the location is about thirty-two astronomical units from Eris."
"So far!"
Yumimura Ryo exclaimed, this is not even close to the orbit of Pluto.
Eris is 96 astronomical units from the sun, which is 14.4 billion kilometers, and this coordinate is still 32 astronomical units from Eris, which is more than 4 billion kilometers.
Although Lomus 3 is equipped with a Max power system, it is a scientific research vessel after all, and its volume and weight are much larger and heavier than a fighter jet. Naturally, its speed cannot be compared with that of the Victory Condor.
Even if we count from the time when Lomus 3 lost contact, with the speed of Lomus 3, it would be impossible for it to fly so far.
"Headquarters requires you to go to the orbit of Pluto as soon as possible, and after meeting Captain Chiba, go to this coordinate to explore together."
"I...?"
"...we?"
Yumimura Yoshimasa was surprised. Asuka Shin's voice suddenly sounded next to him, which startled Yumimura Yoshi. He almost threw away the WIT in his hand. When he turned around to look, he saw Asuka Shin came over at some point, and
Judging from his prompt utterance of 'men', it was not like he heard it by chance, but rather after listening for a long time.
"Yes, the Asuka team members have also received driving training on the Victory Condor. You will drive the Victory Condor to the orbit of Pluto, follow Captain Chiba's command, and head to this coordinate point together." Gosuke Kibi paused.
Said: "This may be a trick of the enemy, or something else, but you have to take a look."
"yes!"
Yumimura Ryo immediately agreed. This is an order. No matter what objections you have, you must obey it.
"Ah, yes!" Asuka Shin also quickly agreed. It just so happened that he also had many questions to ask the captain.
"Let's go as soon as possible!"
"Understood!" This time the two of them could answer in unison.
The command was issued, and the Victory Condor, which had just landed not long ago, was once again pushed onto the take-off track. Under continuous acceleration, it jumped into the sky from the take-off port that had just been cleared, and rushed towards Wei Liang like a sharp arrow.
sky, flying towards the dark universe.
Yumimura Ryo focused on operating the fighter jet, causing Asuka Shin in the back seat to open his mouth many times, but finally closed his mouth so as not to disturb Yumimura Ryo, who seemed very busy.
In the end, I could only turn my head and look outside the cabin. I saw everything was dark, with the occasional starlight. The sun was in the distance, Mars was nearby, and the Mars Space Station was not far away.
For ordinary people, the beautiful scenery of the universe is rare, but for them it is commonplace.
This made Asuka Shin couldn't help but wonder, was his father the same way back then? He looked at the universe he had seen countless times, and flew in the black and silent universe countless times. His initial curiosity about the starry sky had long since faded away.
Even though his expectations for the universe have long since disappeared, he still keeps flying. What is supporting him?
Time and time again, I left my family and the bustling city, went to the desolate lunar base, flew into the empty and lonely universe, and risked my life.
Is it worth it?
I have thought about this problem countless times since I was a child, and I even resented my father for being unable to accompany me, and resented my father for abandoning me so early.
As age and experience increase, the resentment gradually disappears, but there is still a grudge in the heart. This also affects Asuka Xin. He chose to fly because he wanted to see the universe and know how powerful the universe is.
It can make a father abandon his family and his son, and even throw away his life there.
Thinking like this, I recalled the previous dream. The dream was so clear and real. Even the words of my father who had long been forgotten were recalled in the dream, as well as the father who was torn to pieces in the end...