Chapter 18 What to Protect
Chiba Makoto, who just took the Shinkansen and bus home for a day yesterday, put on a backpack with food, stepped on a water bottle, took a camera, and set off again , the money I just got was spent like running water, turning into bus tickets, plane tickets, and steamer 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 set off 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 it 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 do you explain that there is no record of landing on the island, and you swam here?
The TV series only focuses on quarries infested with monsters. 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 quarries. The field is at the southernmost edge of the island.
According to the host of the hotel, the quarry is the main industry of the island. The sand and gravel required for paving roads, building docks, building walls, burning paper cement, etc. all come from the quarry. After all, this place is a full five to six hundred kilometers away from Honshu Island. If building materials are shipped here, the freight can be so high that people choose dog leashes.
And the existence of the quarry has also provided a lot of jobs on the island. Every household on the island has someone there or has been there to dig stones to make money to support the family.
After listening to the introduction of the locals, Chiba Cheng felt a little heavy and lay on the bed for a long time unable to fall asleep. The residents of the island needed stones from the quarry to repair bridges and repair roads, and they also needed the quarry to provide them. work to support their families.
From the ancient Stone Age to the present, stone has been an indispensable and irreplaceable resource for human society. To take the simplest example - concrete, cement is made of limestone. Sand and gravel also need to be added. Without concrete, high-rise buildings, bridges, and highways are all out of the question.
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 not considered, how much garbage can monsters help humans deal with?
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 robbing resources, human beings can even break out their brains, let alone monsters that are not of my species.
"Alas!" Chiba Makoto sighed deeply. Humans who faced monsters for the first time were full of fear of monsters. No one would sympathize with or even want to protect monsters, or even think so. People are either crazy or stupid.
From an objective perspective, 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. It must be eliminated to protect humanity.
Da Gu 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?"
No one answered his question until dawn. , 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 TPC knew about the monsters here. and intervened.
This made Chiba Cheng speed up quickly, and finally arrived at the quarry, only to find that the place was under martial law. People wearing TPC uniforms guarded the intersection, prohibiting anyone from entering, even if they took out A press pass didn't help, nor was there any way of understanding what was going on inside.
Chiba Makoto, who had been squatting until evening but 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, and suddenly thought that the miners were all locals. , they must know about the quarry.
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 room 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.
Just after parking the motorcycle, the landlord's uncle also came back from outside. Chiba Makoto hurriedly inquired, and then he realized that it was a woman who was mourning the loss of her husband, the child was crying and losing his father, and the old man was mourning the loss of his father. Got a son.
The homeowner sighed and said: "The villagers who went down the well yesterday morning just came back. They said that many people turned into stone. Now the TPC is here too. It seems that the legendary Jakuma is real. You should leave as soon as possible, this is a shame, I hope TP C can destroy the monster, otherwise I have to find a way to move it away. It’s really scary that the monster is on the island.” Yu Qianyecheng stood in the yard blankly, as if a storm was rising 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 high-level 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 sons 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. It's quarry work, and these heavy jobs are inseparable from strong men.
When the backbone of the family is gone, how difficult will life be in the future?
Unbelievably difficult.
(End of this chapter)