Chiba Makoto, who just took the Shinkansen and bus home for a day yesterday, put on his backpack with food, put on his water bottle, took his camera, and set out again. The money he just got was spent like water. , turned into bus tickets, plane tickets, and ship tickets.
It took him seven or eight hours to travel from Chiba to Okinawa and then transfer to a ferry before arriving at his destination, Kuroshima. When he came out of the pier, the sky was filled with stars.
Yesterday I went home in the morning and arrived home in the evening. Today I set off in the morning and arrived in the evening. It has been two days since I came to this world and I have done nothing. All of it was spent on the road.
He did not choose to transform into Tiga and fly over. Although he would save money, it would be troublesome. After all, he could not be sure when Jakuma would come out. What if he was discovered by TPC people while waiting near the quarry? How could he explain that there was no record of landing on the island? , swam here?
The TV series only focuses on the quarry where monsters are infested. In fact, Kuroshima is a large island with an area of nearly 300 square kilometers. Residential houses and farmland are scattered along the coast. There are hills in the south and middle of the island. Chiba Makoto is looking for quarrying. The field is at the southernmost edge of the island.
According to the host family who stayed there, the quarry is the island's pillar industry. The sand and gravel required for paving roads, building docks, building walls, burning paper and cement, etc. all come from the quarry. After all, it is a short distance away from Honshu Island. It's a total of five to six hundred kilometers. If you transport building materials, the freight can be so high that you would choose a dog leash.
Moreover, the existence of quarries has also provided many jobs on the island. Every household on the island has someone there or has been there to dig stones to earn money to support the family.
After listening to the introduction of the locals, Chiba Cheng felt a little heavy and lay on the bed unable to fall asleep for a long time. The residents on the island needed the stones from the quarry to repair bridges and roads, and they also needed the jobs provided by the quarry to support their families.
From the ancient Stone Age to the present, stone has been an indispensable and irreplaceable resource for human society. Take the simplest example - concrete. Cement is made of limestone, and sand and gravel need to be added when using it. Without concrete, high-rise buildings, bridges, and highways would be impossible.
Kakuma makes a living by eating stones, and is competing with humans for the limited mineral resources of stones. And the islanders, will they feel comfortable coexisting with the two monsters? Aren’t you worried that monsters will eat the island’s rocks and sink the island?
Send away...
Where? Is there any place on this planet that humans cannot set foot on? As long as humans can arrive, Gakuma will never think about a quiet life. TPC is not Gosri's EYES, and the victory team is not a team that protects monsters, they want to destroy monsters.
As for helping humans dispose of garbage, how can we ensure that the monsters do not attack the people and vehicles carrying garbage, but also obediently turn the garbage transported by humans into stones, and then eat it to satisfy their hunger? There are also transportation costs. You can't put the monster near the city. If it travels hundreds or thousands of kilometers, the freight will be so high that it can cost gold to transport garbage.
Even if all of the above are ignored, how much garbage can monsters help humans dispose of?
Light attacks are extremely energy-consuming. Tiga estimates that firing the full-power light two or three times will exhaust the energy. How much garbage can Gakuma petrify, and how many stones do he need to eat to replenish it? It is estimated that for one portion of petrified garbage, it would take ten portions of stones to be replenished.
The topic returned to the robbing of resources. Gakuma ate stones that humans also needed. In order to rob for resources, humans can even break out their brains, let alone monsters that are not my species.
"Alas!" Chiba Cheng sighed deeply. Human beings who faced monsters for the first time were full of fear of monsters. No one would sympathize with or even want to protect monsters. They would even think that people with such thoughts are either madmen or fools.
From an objective point of view, Gakuma and humans compete for stone resources, and whoever destroys them is the natural law of the jungle. But from a human perspective, it is unforgivable for monsters to harm humans and must be eliminated to protect humans. .
Dagu is both light and human, but what about himself? Is this also true? Do you want to kill Gakuma like him?
Chiba Cheng didn't know. He came here without thinking too much, but only then did he realize that there were many things to think about. If he was just a simple human, he wouldn't have to think too much and just shout to kill the monster, but he was Ultraman.
Qianye Cheng stared at the divine light stick in his hand and murmured in a low voice: "Diga, what will you do?"
Until dawn, no one answered his question. Chiba Cheng carried a backpack, borrowed the homeowner's motorcycle, and embarked on a journey to the quarry. Along the way, several TPC planes flew overhead. , obviously the existence of monsters here has been known to the TPC and intervened.
This made Chiba Makoto quickly speed up, and finally arrived at the quarry, only to find that the place was under martial law. People wearing TPC uniforms were guarding the intersection and no one was allowed to enter. Even taking out a press card would not help. There was no way of knowing what was going on inside.
Chiba Makoto, who had been squatting till evening and nothing happened, came back disappointed. Walking on the road dejectedly, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a family's safety helmet hanging outside the house. It suddenly occurred to him that the miners were all locals and they must know about quarrying. Field matter.
I rushed back to Hayamachi where I was staying for the night. As soon as I entered the village, I heard mournful crying coming from a house on the left. Many people from the village gathered in the yard, sighing and talking. Such a situation, in It happened in multiple courtyards in the village.
As soon as he parked his motorcycle, the landlord's uncle also came back from outside. Chiba Makoto hurriedly inquired and found out that it was a woman who was grieving for the loss of her husband, a child who was crying for the loss of his father, and an old man who was grieving for the loss of his son.
The homeowner sighed and said: "The villagers who went down the well yesterday morning just came back. They said that many people turned to stone. Now the TPC is here too. It seems that the legendary Gakuma is real. You should leave as soon as possible. ...Oh, I hope TPC can eliminate the monster, otherwise I have to find a way to move it away. The monster is actually on the island, which is really scary."
After the landlord finished speaking, he went into the house to get some things and then went out again. Chiba Cheng was left standing in the yard blankly, as if there was a storm in his heart.
He has been thinking about whether Ultraman protects humans or the earth, thinking about the relationship between monsters and humans, thinking about ways to keep Gakuma alive, and thinking about many lofty philosophies.
But they forgot to think that the miners who died were human beings, living human beings.
They are the backbone of a family. The wife needs her husband to make money to support the family, the children need their father to make money to study and buy toys, and the parents need their son to make money to support them.
This place is not like a city. There are many office buildings and various factories. Even the old and the weak can find easy jobs. People on the island basically make a living by farming and fishing, and they also work in quarries. And these heavy tasks are inseparable from strong men.
When the backbone of the family is gone, how difficult will life be in the future?
Unbelievably difficult.
