charles altman

The dark clouds obscured the light of the stars and the moon, rumbling thunder pierced through the clouds, and the air before the heavy rain was particularly dull, as if choking one's neck and making one unable to breathe.

Phoenix nest viewing platform.

"It seems that there will be a thunderstorm tonight." Peng Jun rested his hands on the railing, looking at the dark night sky.

Although Bo Jiaru has been eliminated, Yao Shaao still stays in this world, so the SAC team members are temporarily staying in the Phoenix Nest.

"This universe is the hometown you have been living in." He Yumian used an affirmative sentence.

"En." Peng Jun responded lightly.

"That's great!" He Yumian sighed with a smile, her tone showing envy, "The earth here is not a lonely planet, there are so many living planets accompanying it! Humans and Ultraman still have such a deep bond. "

"That world..." Peng Jun turned his head and looked at her with a smile, "Isn't there me too?"

He Yumian met his gaze, and her dark eyes shone brightly against the lights of the viewing platform: "After this incident is over, can you take me to your hometown, Ultra Star? I want to see what it's like to see Ultraman flying around in the sky."

"Cough..." Peng Jun couldn't help laughing, "I'm afraid it won't be as you wish."

He Yumian blinked her round eyes and asked him, "Why?"

"Just as the weak sunlight on the earth cannot allow Ultraman to stay on the ground for a long time, the intense light of the Ultra Star is not something humans can bear."

"Oh..." He Yumian nodded half-understood, with no disappointment on his face, "I remember Xu Rui once said that Ultraman's energy source is light, so do you still have to eat and drink? ?What should I do if I'm hungry or thirsty?"

Peng Jun smiled: "The body structure of Ultraman is different from that of human beings. We don't need to eat or drink, so we won't be hungry or thirsty."

"Then Ultraman doesn't need to sleep either?"

"Sleep is also needed."

"What about taking a shower?"

"Of course, Ultraman is also afraid of getting dirty, so he must pay attention to hygiene."

"Will they also be born, grow old, get sick and die?"

"Yes. Ultraman will also be sick and injured, so the Kingdom of Light has a unit that is responsible for the treatment and care of Ultraman, called the Silver Crusaders. Ultraman's life span is much longer than that of humans, but it is not longevity. Not old, will die after reaching a certain age. If fatally injured, will die."

"Ultraman is indeed a living body."

Peng Jun laughed.

"Then... will you also have a baby Ultraman?"

Peng Jun patted her forehead with the back of his hand amusedly, and asked, "What do you think?"

He Yumian himself was also happy, and suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "The light of the Ultra Star is so strong, so there is no water source on your planet? Without water, there will be no clouds, and there will be no frost, rain and snow. Because you are surrounded by warm sunshine all year round, so you are very afraid of the cold, right?"

Peng Jun guessed that He Yumian was referring to the time in the Paradise of Paradise, and he almost couldn't resist the extremely cold climate there.

"Yeah." He didn't deny it.Seeing that He Yumian hadn't finished asking questions, Peng Jun couldn't help laughing and asked, "How many questions do you still have in your stomach?"

He Yumian giggled: "There is the last one, is it your exclusive ability to become a human being or is it an ability that all Ultraman have? Besides the human appearance, you...or, you, can also become other Things? For example, animals, plants, house stones, etc., just like Monkey King’s 72 transformations.”

"Is this also a question for you?"

"Almost!"

"Any Ultraman has no ability to change. Apart from being able to freely control his body size, he does not have any ability to change his shape. That is to say, we, like humans, cannot become other species."

He Yumian didn't understand: "But don't you look like a human now? Could it be possession?"

"Ultraman can indeed fuse with human beings, and even share a life with one body. But my current situation is not the same. I simulated it according to the appearance of the real Peng Jun."

The more He Yumian listened, the more he couldn't understand: "What, isn't it still possible to become another species?"

"The reason why we have such a deep connection and bond with humans, and the reason why we can mimic humans, is because Ultraman was originally a human being."

"Ultraman... is it a human being?" He Yumian's eyes widened. The answer was completely beyond her understanding.

"It was the super-evolution event 26 years ago that changed us. Before that, our appearance was very similar to that of people on Earth. Later, the sun in our galaxy exploded, and the Ultra Star completely lost its light. In order to get rid of In perpetual darkness, scientists have created an artificial sun—the plasma spark tower, which contains powerful energy. Ultraman is now known to people on Earth."

"So it's like this..." He Yumian's heart was shaken, she never thought that Ultraman and humans would have such a deep relationship.After the shock was over, she immediately thought of another question, and she couldn't help being a little horrified: "So... are you already 26 years old?"

"..." Peng Jun was stunned for a moment before laughing dumbly.

He Yumian got it wrong and became even more horrified: "Is it more than 26 years old? Is that 30? 40? Or 50?"

Peng Jun quickly clarified: "The super-evolution event was a long time ago for us. Most of the Ultraman living on Ultra Star were born after the super-evolution event. The oldest King of Ultra who has experienced the super-evolution event is only 32 years old. In addition, the father of Ultra, the captain of the Space Guard, is also called an elder, and he is only 16 years old."

He Yumian's frightened little heart finally calmed down: "What about you?"

Peng Jun made an "eight".

"8 years." With the foreshadowing of the previous 10,000+ hundreds of thousands of years, tens of thousands of years is not so difficult for He Yumian to accept.

"...It's 8."

"Huh?! Only 8 years old?" The span between one hundred thousand and one thousand seems a bit big!

Peng Jun suddenly felt that He Yumian looked at him as if he was looking at an underage child.He explained with a helpless smile: "The 8000-year-old Ultraman is already a youth, which is equivalent to a human being in his 20s."

"Oh..." He Yumian finally felt relieved, "By the way, you said just now that you mimicked the real Peng Jun. What about the real Peng Jun? Does he know of your existence?"

Peng Jun was silent for a while, then sighed: "He passed away three years ago."

In the middle of the night three years ago, when Charles was just sucked into this universe and fell to the earth, Peng Jun's hometown was hit by a typhoon, and the torrential rain brought by the typhoon caused the water level of the reservoir to rise violently, eventually causing the dam to collapse. , The flood engulfed the villages and towns downstream of the reservoir like a crazy beast.

Peng Jun's house was flooded to the point where only half of the roof remained. He and his parents huddled together on this nightmarish typhoon night, waiting for the rescue team to appear.However, the rain was too heavy, the wind was too strong, and the water was too fast. Their house could not last long and was crumbling.

Peng Jun stared at the higher roof next to them, which was their neighbor's house. He knew that the structure of this house was stronger than theirs.The neighbor's family had been buried in the flood a few hours earlier.

Peng Jun decided to take a risk. After a lot of hard work, he managed to grab a tree trunk of a suitable length washed down from the upstream, and set it up between the two roofs to make a single-plank bridge.At this time, their house had already started to shake. Peng Jun asked his parents to go to the opposite roof first with a tough attitude, but he himself was involved in the flood as the house collapsed and never came back.

Charles happened to see this scene. He originally wanted to find Peng Jun to rescue him, but the roof where Peng Jun's parents were was hit by a huge heavy object and fell into crisis again.After weighing it for a moment, Charles decided to save the two old people first.

After bringing Peng's father and mother to a safe shore, Charles almost exhausted all his energy, stopped the wind and rain, repelled the flood, and returned the night to calm.

The color timer flickered quickly, and Charles told Peng's father and mother about his situation and asked for advice, asking if they would let him borrow their son's appearance.

Peng's father and mother thanked Charles for his life-saving grace, and also knew that he was a kind alien who helped mankind resolve this natural disaster, so they agreed to his request.

In this way, Charles began to live on Earth as Peng Jun.Later, he learned that Peng Jun's wish was to do his part to defend the earth with his own hands. In order to fulfill his last wish, Charles joined SAC instead.

After hearing this story, He Yumian was filled with emotion: "He is really a great person. If he is still alive, he will definitely be an excellent SAC player."

"En!" Peng Jun nodded solemnly and firmly.

He Yumian raised her head slightly and looked into Peng Jun's bright black eyes. The night covered the faint blush on her cheeks, and her tone was a little shy: "Can you...can you change your body?"

"Huh?" Peng Jun was puzzled.

"Just... become Charles." He Yumian's eyes began to dodge.

Peng Jun looked around, and there was no one on the viewing platform except the two of them, but he was still puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Well why change?

But He Yumian just said: "Three seconds is enough."

Peng Jun hesitated for a while, but finally complied with He Yumian's request and transformed into Charles.

He Yumian stood on tiptoe, quickly kissed Charles on the face, then turned his back, half shy and half sweet: "Am I the first human to kiss Ultraman?"

Charles suppressed a smile: "Yes." He even kissed him twice in a row.

DIP DONG—DIP DONG—

A familiar voice suddenly sounded, He Yumian was startled, and hurriedly turned around, Charles had already changed back to Peng Jun, and the warning sound stopped.

That is clearly the alarm sound of the color timer!

"Peng Jun, what's wrong with you?" He Yumian was nervous, he had only transformed for a few seconds, why did the timer ring?

"It's okay, don't worry." Peng Jun comforted her.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, He Yumian became even more nervous: "What do you mean it's okay? Why does the timer ring when it's okay?"

Peng Jun calmed her emotions softly: "I'm really fine, it's just that I went through a battle during the day, and my energy hasn't fully recovered. You know, the earth's sunlight is too weak for us Ultraman, so recover Slow down too." That's why he hesitated when He Yumian asked him to transform just now, because he was afraid that she would worry.

"Is that true?" He Yumian was still worried.

Peng Jun's right hand caressed the black hair beside her ear, and his voice was low and smiling: "Do you need me to prove it to you?" He put his left hand around her waist as he said, and gently embraced her into his arms middle.

He Yumian's breathing stopped suddenly, and he raised his head subconsciously to look at Peng Jun, but saw him lowering his eyes and looking deeply at her, with a faint smile on his mouth.

I've never seen him have such unabashedly affectionate eyes and tenderness like water.

Occasionally, a gust of night wind blows, her hair flutters, and his eyes waver slightly.

He lowered his head slowly and approached her slowly.

The gradually approaching breath made her heart beat extremely fast, but her breathing was stagnant.

She closed her eyes.

The cherry red lips touched a soft, strange and warm touch.

Drop drop-

Suddenly a sharp reminder pierced into his ears, He Yumian was frightened for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he pushed Peng Jun away in a panic, with a clear red glow on his cheeks.

"You, you, you... your communication... looking, looking for you!" He Yumian spoke incoherently.

Peng Jun looked at her waist and chuckled, "It's your SAC terminal that's beeping."

"Oh... oh oh!" He Yumian forced himself to calm down, straightened his hair, cleared his throat, and then picked up the SAC terminal and connected to the communication.

"What's the matter, Zhuo Fei?"

On the other side of the screen was Wei Zhuofei's anxious expression: "Yumian, is Peng Jun with you? Go back to the command room, Bo Jiaru's last cry is weird!"