Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

It has been said before that time travel is impossible.

In addition to the parallel world theory - yes, I remember it, it's the time protection conjecture.

In short, these two theories, or perhaps more, together established that time travel is impossible in Xia Long's eyes, whose scientific knowledge is limited to popular science works and common sense. At most, he can see the past, but he cannot reach out and touch the things in that scene to change them.

However, now they are two different worlds. Perhaps there is some change in the cosmic constants, which makes time travel very simple in the Ultraman world.

Moreover, with the continuous differentiation and deepening of disciplines, science used to be behind science fiction, but now it is the other way around, science fiction is behind science. Perhaps one day in Xia Long's world, some brilliant principle, formula or theory that ordinary people cannot understand will appear, making time travel possible.

At the moment, the road under your feet is not a cement road, but a dirt road. If you step hard, you can even leave shoe prints on the dirt.

The surrounding environment is made up of thatched houses and wooden houses. Unlike the precisely calculated modern cities, lush greenery can be seen everywhere here, with plants growing from all kinds of places.

This era is probably a certain ancient period when eating white rice was a luxury. As for the specific time, it is of course unclear whether it was during the Taisho, Showa, Edo, Tokugawa, etc. These houses, which can almost be said to be crudely built, reveal a sense of simplicity. Any remote village in ancient Japan or even now may still have such houses.

The enhanced hearing allows one to vaguely hear human voices, the sounds of children playing, the noisy sounds of cicadas, and even the sound of the sea waves.

Should it be luck or something else, but no one around Xia Long saw him, and they met across time and space.

Xia Long reached out and grabbed the rhizome of a green grass, tore it off and pulled it off. The juice that flowed out was sticky on his hand and felt quite real.

Xia Long fell into silence as he looked at the green grass in his hand. Then he used telekinesis to dig a small hole in the ground, put the green grass in it, and buried it.

In the original plot, this incident is based on the classic Japanese legend "Dragon Palace". Japan seems to like to use traditional stories as material for modern stories.

However, the story of Urashima Taro that has been passed down to the present day is inherently confusing.

As long as you understand it a little, the turtle's return of gratitude is very confusing. Looking at the ending and development, as a story, people can't see the obvious intention and moral education purpose. As a reality, it is a simple delusion and unreality, which feels a bit nonsensical. Even Haruki Murakami would not easily write such a story.

If the version of the story was that Urashima Taro was definitely transformed into a crane, Xia Long might be able to barely understand it, but after rescuing the turtle, playing with it for a few days, and returning with nothing, and opening the box that he was not allowed to open, he turned into an old man. The name of this story should really be "Urashima Taro: The Turtle's Repaying Kindness with Enmity", which is not funny.

If stories like this must be interpreted allegorically to convey a moral purpose, it would be better to simply read Aesop's fables.

Copying Urashima Taro's story in real life will not only make people feel that it has cultural heritage, but also make people feel that this culture is inexplicably strange.

Xia Long thought about it for a while, lowered his eyes, and black mist began to emerge from his body. The black mist swirled around Xia Long, and finally Xia Long himself "disappeared."

In his memory, this kind of time travel is not eternal, but he has definitely disturbed this world and must be careful to avoid being left in this world.

Although Xia Long himself didn't know what his body had become at present, he didn't want to gamble that his lifespan limit would remain in the past just because of the unknown.

However, after just a few steps, the surrounding time and space suddenly changed again.

Because of the unevenness of the soil, the action of taking a step forward again became unnatural, and there was a moment of abnormality that he misjudged the distance. Suddenly stepping on the cement road, Xia Long frowned and looked around. The modern cement town appeared in front of him, and the cold sea breeze and air blew around him. The sun was also blocked by dark clouds, and the ground became dark again.

--came back.

From the beginning to the end, although it was indeed a journey to the past (if you hadn't read the plot, you could have judged that it was actually a transfer from another space to here) and changes were made, but this time and space travel was only a dozen seconds, right?

What can you do in a dozen seconds?

However, according to his memory, Xia Long knew that this kind of time travel would happen again, that is to say... this time travel was not a cooldown skill that would disappear after a certain period of time after use, but a skill that required a lot of time to prepare and could locally disrupt the time and space of a certain area. The time travel of more than ten seconds just now was probably just the beginning. This was a skill that would become more and more intense after it was activated.

This happened after the woman disappeared, which means she was the initiator of this phenomenon. I don't know whether it was her own doing or borrowed from something else.

Xia Long was silent for a moment, changed the direction of his body, turned around and walked away somewhere.

......

It's night time.

Everyone has grievances. If we follow the standards of non-intelligent life forms, then even all things in the world, including wild animals, grass, and flowers - without the will of the planet - will have their own grievances.

This resentment is probably the dissatisfaction with themselves, their lives, and the obstruction of their freedom. During the Ace period, the Yabo people used this resentment to integrate their technology with the products of the Earth and even cosmic monsters to create all kinds of super beasts.

Therefore, resentment is like the civilization that develops after evolution. It is the reverse side of civilization, its shadow, and it is something that will never disappear.

Although they will not disappear, there are few strong grievances that will react to the outside world without external influence.

For example, when there are other things that can be called negative energy entangled with them, these resentments will easily be controlled by "emotions" and through the spiritual power of intelligent life forms, they will become substantial creatures beyond nature to cause destruction.

In addition, resentment varies in size, like particles and stars. The people in the Ultra World basically live in a world where resentment constantly emerges and disappears, like soap bubbles exploding continuously.

Basically, Xia Long is absorbing this kind of energy all the time, but unless the conditions are special, he can rarely absorb a large amount. Even if the conditions are right, it depends on luck. But there is no doubt that the places where he can absorb a large amount are where tragic events have occurred, long-term contagion, or even tragic places caused by unknown factors.

To use practical examples, it would be Fukushima when the nuclear power plant accident occurred, Tokyo when it was burned by LeMay's napalm bomb, and the gathering place of the Nongmalt people in that unknown depth. He was able to absorb a lot of resentment.

But because of this, by influencing resentment, Xia Long can form a radar-like observation perspective.

Leaning quietly against the corridor of the hospital, even the lights were dimmed late at night. Xia Long stood and looked up at the ceiling of the corridor. The room behind him was the ward of the old man he met today. It seemed that Seven had sent him in.

'What will happen?'

There was something strange about that old man. As Urashima Taro, of course there was something strange about him, but what exactly was strange about him, probably only people from the Ryugu side knew, he and Seven could only see that something was wrong with the old man.

Now, separated by a wall, Seven in the ward is observing the old man, and he wants to see what Seven has observed.

A living person came over. Xia Long turned his eyes, which could see through fire even in the dark, and found that it was a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, with black hair, black suit and black tie. He had a yellow face, but he was not a yellow person. It should be said that he was not a human.

According to the plot…this guy is the turtle.

Xia Long watched him walk into the room, and a voice came from the open door.

"Leave that man alone, Ultraman!"

You are so brave.