SWDnovel Chapter 379 Daoist Jinglong? It's you again?
Chapter 379 Daoist Jinglong? It's you again?
Time flies, and a week has quietly slipped away amidst the eager anticipation of countless tokusatsu fans.
The episode to be broadcast is the ninth episode of "Ultraman Cosmos", which is the 18th episode of the original series.
However, compared to the original work, Gu Nan used the 40-minute runtime of this episode to deepen the emotional storyline of Vice Captain Mizuha.
After all, compared to the other team members' funny and heartwarming love stories, the vice-captain's love life is quite complicated.
However, the original work was somewhat rushed, with more plot focused on the ghost storyline.
Both storylines in this episode could have been explored in more detail, and could have been interwoven and echoed later in the episode to create a contrast.
Therefore, Gu Nan expanded the dialogue scenes in this episode...
at last.
At 8 p.m. on Friday, the servers of major video platforms experienced a surge in traffic.
Ultraman Cosmos, airing on time!
Check in on time!
[Finally an update! What new content does the old thief have this week?]
[Hopefully, nothing malicious will happen.]
【Gentlemen, if you can tolerate this old scoundrel Gu recklessly indulging in his literary escapades and wielding knives again, then I'll excuse myself from retiring to my hometown!】
What will we eat now that you're gone?!
Yeah, what should we eat?
Why are these three new memes making a comeback?!
The main feature begins.
Accompanied by the melodious and light sound of rails scraping against each other, a retro-styled green train slowly pulls into a remote station surrounded by mountains and beautiful scenery.
The bus stop sign clearly displays three large characters: Xiangye Village.
The train door opened, and Vice Captain Mizuha, dressed in very casual clothes, carrying a travel bag, stepped off the train with a smile.
A gentle breeze ruffled her hair, a scene that instantly captivated viewers in front of their screens.
Wow! The vice-captain looks this good in casual clothes!
I'm getting old~
Indeed, women age after mitosis.
[Hey, Eleking, give me a good shock!]
[Finally, it's not some crazy, outrageous makeup and styling trick anymore. Even an 8/10 beauty can look like a 3/10 if she shows a large forehead.]
The captain seems quite gentle after taking off her uniform.
This is definitely a date vibe!
"Mizuha-neechan!"
Just then, a clear shout came from not far from the platform.
A girl with a ponytail, radiating youthful energy, was excitedly waving at Mizuha. This girl, named Kozue, appeared to be a middle school student.
Shuiye quickly stepped forward, her eyes full of doting affection: "Is that Xiaocui? It's been a long time."
"Yes, you're still so beautiful, sister!" Xiao Cui happily linked arms with Shui Ye, saying proudly, "I'll be a high school student next year!"
Shuiye smiled and patted her head, saying with emotion, "Time flies! Girls change so much as they grow up. The last time I saw you, you were still in elementary school."
The two walked out of the station side by side, chatting and laughing, like a pair of close sisters.
I thought I was going to see my boyfriend.
[That's all for now, no more gossip.]
Can you please not be so gossipy?
Immediately afterwards, the camera shifted and cut back to the base command room of the youth elite team.
In stark contrast to the peaceful and serene atmosphere of Xiangye Village, the command room was filled with a strong sense of resentment.
"Aaaaaahh ...
Rena frantically grabbed at her hair with both hands, turning her once neat hairstyle into a mess.
She completely broke down and started acting like a scoundrel in her seat, loudly complaining and scattering the work documents she had organized into the air like a shower of flowers.
White papers fluttered and scattered throughout the command room, covering the floor.
"Wow! I want to travel too!"
Rena pouted, angrily pounding the table, her face full of resentment. "I really, really want to take a vacation!"
Tsuchikage and Musashi, standing to the side, exchanged a helpless glance as they watched the documents fluttering in the air.
"Who told you to have such bad luck in the lottery during your vacation, drawing last place? By the time it's your turn, you'll probably be on fall break."
The wind blew by, arms crossed, and mercilessly delivered the final blow.
Upon hearing this, Rena became even more furious. She cupped her face in her hands and began to indulge in her own gossip, raising her voice eight octaves: "Hmph! What do you know! Right now, Vice-Captain Mizuha is probably gazing lovingly at her lover!"
The wind rolled its eyes, and it turned around to fiddle with the equipment: "Does the vice-captain have a lover? I'm not interested in that."
"Ugh—this is so annoying!"
Even the usually honest and simple-minded Tu Jing started muttering behind his back:
"I can't stand this noise every day!"
Looking at the command room filled with a cheerful atmosphere, the live chat was instantly flooded with laughter.
Wow, there's a sequel to the vacation scenes from the previous episodes.
It seems Rena drew the last lot.
Working overtime even on a holiday? The resentment is palpable!
At this point, the scene cuts back to Kano Village.
Mizuha and Kozuki followed the winding mountain path to a scenic spot halfway up the mountain. This was the famous Two-Person Mountain in Kono Village.
Ahead, a man dressed in simple work clothes, with a slightly weathered expression, was standing there. He was Xiao Cui's father, Zhu Yue.
"Commander Takegoe, it's been a long time."
Mizuha stepped forward, her relaxed demeanor vanishing, replaced by a barely concealed excitement and complex emotion in her voice.
Zhu Yue turned around, looked at Shui Ye, shook his head with a wry smile, waved his hand and said, "I'm no longer a superior officer."
Then, in a long flashback sequence...
The audience learned about the long-standing and irreconcilable love story between the two.
It turns out that Takekoshi was once an extremely strict officer in the defense force, and also Mizuha's most respected superior.
But after his wife died in an accident, in order to focus on taking care of his young daughter Xiao Cui, he resolutely resigned from his post in the defense army, retired from the military, and returned to live in this remote mountain village.
Mizuha, on the other hand, has always harbored a deep and unresolved feeling towards this superior officer.
However, he harbored resentment because of his superior's daughter.
It's not that he dislikes girls; on the contrary, Mizuha likes Xiao Cui very much.
Therefore, she was even more unwilling to interfere in this family...
This feeling settled over the years, and this time, taking advantage of her vacation, she made a special trip to see him, also to find an answer to a certain obsession in her heart.
After exchanging a few brief pleasantries, Zhu Yue excused himself, saying he had to attend to some engineering work, and left first.
the other side.
In a cemetery in the village.
A girl named Xiaocui sat in front of a tombstone, talking to herself:
"Mom, actually... I think Dad is probably going to remarry."
"I won't object, because I want Dad to be happy, and I hope Mom will agree too."
Xiao Cui lowered her head, her eyes slightly red, but her voice was firm, "But don't worry, Mom, I will only ever have one mom."
Holy crap, this is a lot of information!
So, the vice-captain came to see her former superior, who was also the object of her secret crush?
[Hmm, this is such an old-fashioned romance plot...]
[Has Gu, that old rascal, spent too much time observing in nursing homes... and written a story about a romance in old age...?]
[This guy's got some charm; he's got the Vice-Captain of Mizuha all infatuated with him.]
【My golden years are over.】
The camera followed the direction Zhu Yue left and arrived at a construction site on Erren Mountain.
The once peaceful mountain village is now tense and on the verge of conflict.
The local government is planning to build a large dam here in an effort to develop the economy. However, the project has been met with strong resistance from some local villagers.
In the crowd, a villager leading the group waved his arms excitedly and shouted, "We are firmly against building a dam here! You are all blinded by money! Especially that rock, it absolutely must not be touched!"
The government officials and contractors in charge of the construction, their faces full of disdain, impatiently waved the villagers away: "In short, we already acquired the land for construction. Stopping the project because of such ridiculous rumors is absolutely impossible!"
The conflict escalated, even attracting the attention of news media in the city.
Inside the command center of the youth elite team, a news report about the conflict during the construction of the Xiangye Village dam was being broadcast simultaneously on a large screen.
"What exactly is that legend they're talking about, and that immovable stone?"
Musashi curiously leaned closer to the screen and asked in confusion.
Captain Haruka, seated in the main seat, picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and then his expression became serious.
"I've heard some of the legends about Kono Village."
Captain Qingguang put down his teacup, placed his hands on the table, and slowly began to speak, "Legend has it that the giant rock called the Knife Stone existed to seal away a monster called the Vengeful Spirit Ghost Love Ghost."
"A vengeful ghost?"
Tu Jing pushed up his glasses and immediately began searching for relevant records of energy fluctuations on his computer.
Captain Qingguang nodded, his voice echoing in the quiet command room, and began to tell his team members about that tragic story that had been buried for hundreds of years.
That was during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Captain Haruka's eyes were deep, as if they could pierce through the barriers of time. "At that time, Kono Village was located at the border of two countries that had been at war for many years. The war raged year after year, and the people suffered unspeakably."
"What a cruel twist of fate is that the princes and princesses of those two enemy countries fell deeply in love during an unexpected encounter."
As the team leader narrated, scenes recreated in the style of traditional Chinese ink painting appeared on the screen.
Against the backdrop of a desolate wasteland amidst the flames of war and falling pear blossoms, a man and a woman dressed in magnificent Hanfu embrace tightly.
Their eyes were filled with despair for the world and longing for each other.
"However, a full-scale war broke out between the two countries. Regardless of which side ultimately won, what awaited them was the destruction of their country, the loss of their homes, and eternal separation."
"In despair, the two chose the most extreme way. In order to completely end this fate that was not tolerated by heaven and earth, they drew the short blades that were like tokens of their love and stabbed each other in the chest, committing suicide together."
Hearing this, Rena couldn't help but cover her mouth, her eyes reddening: "So pitiful... Isn't this just like the legendary Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?"
Captain Qingguang sighed and continued, "Though their physical bodies died, the intense obsession in their hearts that could not be reunited, and their overwhelming resentment towards the war, never dissipated. In the end, their souls, unable to reincarnate, twisted and merged together, transforming into deformed beings that were neither human nor ghost—vengeful spirits who loved ghosts, and reappeared in the human world."
"The resurrected love demon was consumed by endless anger and resentment. Carrying hundreds of years of obsession, it razed both warring vassal states to the ground in a very short time, relying on terrifying demonic energy and red lotus karmic fire."
Holy crap! That's so tragic!
[Love turned to hatred, transforming into a vengeful ghost to destroy a nation?]
[A love-hate relationship, huh?]
Is this a dark version of the Butterfly Lovers?
[An ordinary person in ancient times: Thank you so much!]
"And then what happened? Since it destroyed the country, how was it sealed away?" Musashi asked eagerly, his hands resting on the table.
Captain Qingguang took a deep breath and uttered a name that instantly sent chills down the spines of all the viewers.
"Until later, a wandering demon-slaying knight came to Erren Mountain."
"With his superb swordsmanship, he subdued the Love Demon and sealed its resentment with his own treasured sword. Finally, he erected the giant rock called the Sword Stone, forever suppressing it beneath the Two-Man Mountain."
"And that chivalrous man's name is—Jing Long."
The moment those four words came out of Captain Qingguang's mouth.
The entire video platform was flooded with comments once again.
[Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! A well dragon?!]
[The ghost swordsman in the Ultraman Tiga universe who sealed Sukuna with a single sword strike?!]
[A dream collaboration, huh!]
[The ultimate demon-slaying god has made a cameo appearance in the Gauss film crew!]
That sealed sword must be the famous sword that slew Sukuna-ki back then!
[The defense forces don't need to go. Just go underground and summon Jinglong's soul, then have him strike again!]
[I'm the strongest human in the tokusatsu (special effects) genre!]
However, just as the audience was marveling at this amazing Easter egg...
The crisis depicted in the scene has already quietly arrived.
"These are just hearsay and folk tales. To think that they can stop the progress of the times is simply a joke."
Feng Chui sat in his chair, nonchalantly curling his lip. He had always been a believer in science and thought this was just pure superstition.
Tsuchikage nodded in agreement, looking at the data on the computer: "I think so too. There is currently no scientific evidence to prove the existence of ghost lovers."
Just when the youth elite team was also skeptical of this legend.
It was late at night.
The construction site at Errenshan in Xiangye Village is quiet and still.
A furtive dark figure, carrying a heavy box, stealthily approached the stone that the villagers considered taboo under the cover of night.
By the moonlight, one could clearly see that it was the foreman who had been the most assertive during the day.
He sneered, took out bundles of high explosives from the box, and skillfully installed them around the knife stone.
"Hmph, then tonight, let's blow it all up!"
The foreman lit the fuse, his eyes gleaming with greed and madness. "This way, we can finally free this village from those pointless superstitions, and I can get paid for my project!"
He turned and ran, then hid in a safe shelter and covered his ears.
"BOOM—!!!"
A deafening roar ripped through the tranquil night sky.
Flames shot skyward, and fragments of stone flew in all directions like bullets. The ancient stone that had suppressed vengeful spirits for hundreds of years was instantly shattered into pieces by the power of modern explosives, turning into a pile of ruins!
The foreman looked at the altar that had been razed to the ground and laughed triumphantly.
However, before his smile could fully bloom, it froze completely on his face.
As the stone shattered, the entire Two People Mountain suddenly began to tremble violently.
This is not an ordinary earthquake.
An extremely dense and nauseating red demonic aura erupted from the depths of the earth like a volcanic eruption! The earth cracked open with hideous fissures, and the eerie red light stained half the night sky blood red.
[So explosive, bro, so explosive!]
[The troublesome resident of the special effects zone still manages to lure out a monster.]
[You're a master of courting death! Congratulations on successfully unleashing your dad!]
Now look what's happened! He didn't make any money, and he's going to lose his life.
[Jinglong: It's alright, I know a person of light~]
[If only he could actually bring Daigo over here~]
"What's going on?!"
The contractor was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, scrambling to escape, but his legs felt as heavy as lead.
Meanwhile, Mizuha, who was in Kono Village, realized that something was wrong and quickly contacted headquarters.
"Strange earthquakes are occurring in succession in the Futariyama area of Kanokura Village!"
"Furthermore, an extremely large and unusual life form was detected underground! That's definitely not a natural geological event!"
Rena and Tsuchikage also investigated the cause of the problem.
Captain Qingguang abruptly stood up, his eyes cold and stern: "This is no ordinary earthquake. It seems the legends have come true! Immediately upgrade to yellow alert level!"
"Musashi, drive the patrol car to Kano Village immediately and meet up with Vice Captain Mizuha to ensure the safety of the villagers!"
"Understood!" Musashi immediately turned and rushed towards the hangar.
"Wind, Earth, you two drive the drilling rigs and get out immediately. Go straight underground and find out what that thing really is!" Captain Qingguang issued the combat orders methodically.
"clear!"
The scene shifts, and Fengchui and Tujing have already piloted the all-purpose exploration machine, the Keneng, which can perform both diving and drilling functions by replacing its core components, to the bottom of Errenshan Mountain.
"Submarine laser ready!" Feng Chui gripped the control stick tightly, staring at the deep rock formations ahead.
"There really is something down there!" Tsuchikage exclaimed, staring at the massive shadow on the radar. "The energy level is still skyrocketing!"
Just as the Keneng was preparing to get closer, a gale mixed with red lotus karmic fire and materialized demonic energy suddenly swept in from the depths of the earth!
The force was so strong that it caused the sturdy Keneng probe to tumble violently through the underground tunnel, as if it were a toy.
"Ah—!" Feng Chui and Tu Jing were jolted around in the cockpit, sparks flying from various instruments.
"Bang!"
With a deafening explosion that shook the mountains and rivers, the mountain of Erren Mountain was violently shattered.
Amidst the horrified gazes of countless villagers and the arriving Musashi and Mizuha, a terrifying monster, 49 meters tall and weighing a staggering 48,000 tons, shattered the earth and returned to the world!
It was clad in a tattered set of ancient Chinese armor that exuded a chilling murderous aura, and wore a hideous ghost mask on its face.
His body was engulfed in flames of resentment like crimson lotuses, and even the surrounding space and time were distorted by that terrifying demonic aura.
This is the vengeful spirit that has been sealed away for hundreds of years—the Love Ghost!
It slowly raised its head, and from beneath the mask came a chilling, mixed male and female voice. The voice was mournful and plaintive, as if it were a curse from the deepest hell.
"Why...why did you have to break us up?!"
Holy crap! He's actually pretty handsome!
[Ancient Chinese armor combined with a demon mask—the oppressive feeling is almost suffocating!]
[The mixed male and female voices gave me goosebumps!]
[These special effects, this aura—absolutely epic!]
[Jinglong: Now you understand how valuable I am!]