The legend of Tiga

Chapter 18 What to Protect

Chiba Makoto, who just took the shinkansen and car home for a day yesterday, put on a backpack with food on his back, put on a water bottle, took a camera, and set off again. , turned into bus tickets, air tickets, ferry tickets.

From Chiba to Okinawa, and then to the ferry, it took seven or eight hours to reach his destination, Jiurao Island. When he came out of the pier, the sky was full of stars.

Yesterday, I went home in the morning, and I only got 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.

I didn't choose to transform into Tiga and fly over. Although it saves money, it will be troublesome. After all, he can't be sure when Jakuma will come out. If he is found by TPC people while waiting near the quarry, how can he explain that there is no record of landing on the island? , swim over?
In the TV series, the time limit is limited to the quarry where monsters are infested. In fact, Jiura Island is a large island with an area of ​​nearly [-] square kilometers. The field is on the southernmost edge of the island.

According to the host of the hostel, the quarry is the pillar industry of the island. The sand and gravel needed for paving roads, building piers, building walls, burning paper and cement, etc. all come from the quarry. A full five or six hundred kilometers, if the building materials are shipped, the freight can be so high that people choose dog leashes.

Moreover, the existence of quarries has also provided many jobs on the island. Every household on the island has people there or have been there to dig stones to make money to subsidize their families.

After listening to the introduction of the locals, Chiba Makoto felt a little heavy, lying on the bed for a long time and could not fall asleep. The residents of the island needed the stones from the quarry to repair bridges and roads, and also needed the work provided by the quarry to support their families.

From the ancient Stone Age to the present, stone has been an indispensable and irreplaceable resource in human society. To give the simplest example - concrete and cement are made of limestone, and sand and gravel need to be added when they are used. Without concrete, high-rise buildings, bridges, highways, all of which would be impossible.

Gakuma eats stones for a living, and it is used to compete with humans for the limited mineral resources of stones, and the islanders, will they live with the two monsters at ease?Don't worry about the monster eating the rocks of the island and sinking the island?
send away
to where?Is there any place on this planet that humans can't set foot on?As long as humans can reach, Gakuma will not think about a quiet life, TPC is not the EYES of Gauss, and the winning team is not a team to protect the monsters, they are to destroy the monsters.

As for helping humans dispose of garbage, how can the monsters not attack the people and cars that transport the garbage in the past, but also obediently turn the garbage transported by humans into stones, and then eat their food.There are also transportation costs. You can't put the monsters in the city. If it is hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the freight will be so high that the garbage can be transported out of the price of gold.

Even if all of the above are not considered, how much garbage can monsters help humans dispose of?
Light attacks are extremely energy-intensive. Diga estimates that if two or three full-power beams are fired, the energy will be exhausted. How much garbage can Jakuma petrify, and how many stones does he need to eat to make up for it?It is estimated that petrochemical one piece of garbage will take ten pieces of stone to make up for it.

The topic went back to resource snatch. Gakuma eats stones that humans also need. In order to snatch resources, humans can make brains inside, not to mention monsters that are not my type.

"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, and even think that those who have this idea are either crazy or fools.

From an objective point of view, Gakuma and humans compete for stone resources, and whoever destroys them is the law of nature; but from a human point of view, it is unforgivable for monsters to harm humans, and they must be eliminated to protect humans. .

Dagu is both light and human, so what about himself?Is it the same?Do you want to kill Jakuma like him?

Qianye Cheng didn't know, he came here without thinking too much, but only then did he realize that there were a lot of things to think about. If he was just a simple human, he didn't need to think too much, just shouted and killed the monster, but he is Ultraman.

Chiba Cheng stared at the divine light stick in his hand, and whispered: "Diga, what will you do?"

Until dawn, no one answered his question. Chiba Makoto carried a backpack, borrowed the owner's motorcycle, and embarked on a journey to the quarry. Along the way, several TPC planes flew overhead. , apparently there is a monster thing here has been known and involved by the TPC.

This made Chiba Makoto hurriedly speed up, and finally arrived at the quarry, only to find that martial law was already enforced there. People in TPC uniforms guarded the intersection and prohibited anyone from entering. No way of knowing what was going on inside.

Chiba Makoto, who had been squatting until the evening and nothing happened, returned in disappointment. Walking down the road in dejection, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a family's safety helmets hanging outside the house. He suddenly thought that the miners were all local, and they must have known about quarrying. field thing.

I rushed back to Hayamachi where I was staying, and as soon as I entered the village, I heard mourning cries coming from a room on the left, and many people from the village gathered in the courtyard, sighing and discussing, and such a situation, in It happened in several courtyards in the village.

As soon as the motorcycle was parked, the uncle of the owner also came back from outside. Chiba Cheng hurried to inquire, and only then did he know that it was a woman who was mourning the loss of her husband, the child was crying and lost her father, and the old man was mourning the loss of her son.

The owner of the house sighed and said: "The villagers who went down the well just came back yesterday morning. They said that many people turned into stones, and now TPC has also come. It seems that the legendary Gakuma is real, you should leave quickly, here Alas, I hope TPC can destroy the monsters, otherwise I have to find a way to move them away, and the monsters are actually on the island, which is really scary."

After the owner finished speaking, he went in to get something and went out again, leaving only Qianye Cheng standing in the yard, as if a storm was set off in his heart.

He has been thinking about whether Ultraman should protect human beings or protect the earth, thinking about the relationship between monsters and human beings, thinking about ways to keep Gakuma alive, and thinking about many, many high-level philosophies.

But only forget to think, those miners who died are people, living people.

They are the backbone of a family, the wife needs the husband to earn money to support the family, the child needs the father to earn money to read and buy toys, and the parents need the son to earn money to support.

Unlike a city, there are many office buildings and various factories. Even the old and the weak can find easy jobs. The people on the island basically rely on farming and fishing for a living, as well as working in quarries. And these heavy jobs are inseparable from strong men.

When the pillar of the family is gone, how difficult will life be in the future?

Incredibly difficult.

(End of this chapter)