MMB Chapter 351 Gauss: The First Strike of the Sun and Moon
Chapter 351 Gauss: The First Strike of the Sun and Moon
Friday night, 8 p.m.
At this moment, Bilibili's server backend data experienced a terrifyingly sharp increase.
Countless viewers flooded into the brand-new live stream room right on time.
The latest online movie from Light Chaser Animation, "Ultraman Cosmos the Movie: The First Strike of the Sun and Moon," has officially premiered.
Old Tang was comfortably leaning back in his gaming chair, with a can of iced cola beside him.
On his computer screen, on the left was the Bilibili live stream window, and on the right was the bustling "Old Tang's Tokusatsu Fleet" QQ group.
Ever since he made that promise in the group chat that "Gauss will never have any realistic fight scenes, otherwise he'll be dressed as a woman and do a handstand while washing his hair," the group members have been keeping a close eye on him.
But Old Tang remained completely calm.
Old Tang took a sip of his cola and looked at the screen with great confidence.
The screen gradually brightened.
Accompanied by slightly noisy and unsettling mysterious ambient sounds, the camera, from a first-person perspective, travels through a dark purple tunnel.
In the universe, there is profound silence.
In the background, a sound resembling heavy breathing gradually quickens, instantly gripping the audience with a strange sense of suspense.
Immediately afterwards, a bright light flashed, and in the vast universe, Ultraman Cosmos's azure figure appeared before the world for the first time.
The two clashed for the first time in space.
The battle against the Neo-Baltan aliens of the 21st century was intense from the very beginning.
However, sharp-eyed viewers immediately noticed something unusual.
Every attack from the Baltan aliens was aimed at a fatal spot; they swung their pincers, unleashing a barrage of deadly moves.
And what about Gauss?
Aside from being forced to defend himself, he didn't retaliate at all.
He has been guiding Baltan in a direction away from Earth.
He was just constantly dodging and defending, and all his actions conveyed the message, "I don't want to hurt you, I just want to stop you from going to Earth."
Gauss suddenly spun around and flung the Baltan alien far away.
Immediately afterwards, the two beams of energy collided violently in mid-air!
The intense light instantly engulfed the field of vision, abruptly pushing the camera towards the sky.
Amidst this blinding white light, the film's title slowly emerged: The First Strike of the Sun and Moon.
In the instant the light faded, a dazzling red light and a clear blue light emerged from the center of the explosion, like intersecting shooting stars streaking across the sky.
These two energy trajectories, facing each other from afar, foreshadow the two forces contained within the compassionate warrior, laying an intriguing foundation for this initial battle.
The live stream chat immediately started scrolling.
[The opening scene is an action sequence, a space battle at that!]
Good heavens, Baltan! But it's a new suit!
Is this the worldview of Old O's Land of Light?
[Seriously, this Ultraman really isn't fighting back!]
Is this the "compassionate hero"?
Is it really a healing product?
In the group chat, Lao Tang immediately started popping up:
Old Tang: See that, guys?
Old Tang: What did I say? This move is entirely defensive!
Old Tang: Gu Nan is definitely going to take the persuasion route this time!
The group members fell silent, which was unusual for them.
However, most group members were watching Gauss and didn't have time to pay attention to Lao Tang.
Even when the chat group pop-up appeared, there was no response, because judging from the current situation, Old Tang's "poisonous milk" seemed to have truly become a divine prophecy.
The scene shifts to Earth.
The warm sunlight on Saturday evening bathed the city in a gentle golden glow.
People walked briskly after a busy week, and the air was filled with the relaxed feeling of the approaching weekend.
The camera slowly zooms in from the sky, passing over rows of houses, and finally focuses on the police station on the street corner, and the Musashi family home right next to it.
As the perspective gradually shifts from an aerial view to a level shot, it tells us that the story will begin in this small town.
A gentle voice-over begins, explaining the background of the story.
On a clear Saturday evening, a boy named Musashi took his beloved binoculars to the forest park to observe the rare lunar eclipse.
The plot unfolds smoothly, even possessing a fairytale-like quality. Musashi is a kind child who enjoys repairing broken toys because he believes they aren't broken, but rather "sick."
He had always dreamed of becoming an astronaut like his late father.
Night fell, and a torrential downpour began.
This is also a dissolve transition to represent the passage of time.
In the thick fog after the rain, Musashi heard a mysterious frequency.
As the search continues, the camera angles change, the background noise grows louder, and the audience's emotions are stirred.
Finally, he followed the sound and, in the hazy mist, Gauss's enormous body slowly appeared.
The scene depicting their encounter was filmed with exquisite beauty.
The thick fog not only added to the sense of mystery, but also made Gauss's body, which radiated a soft light, appear both sacred and approachable.
Musashi used the refraction of light to help Gauss restore his energy.
To thank Musashi, Gauss decides to grant him a wish.
A longing flashed in Musashi's eyes; it was the space dream he had kept hidden in his heart since childhood.
So, Gao Shi and Musashi flew together into the sky.
The wind whistled in my ears, and the scenery on the ground gradually shrank until a bridge spanning the two banks appeared below, where the camera paused briefly.
The bridge, like a bond quietly erected between the two, silently proclaimed the birth of a special connection.
After flying for a while, they slowly landed on the ground.
Gauss handed a sapphire to Musashi, and the warm touch of the stone seemed to contain the power of the stars.
Under the moonlight, the two made this "hero's promise".
[Case solved: Gauss is related to solar energy]
【Huh? This little bit of light is enough!?】
[New Energy Ultraman!]
[Seriously, this scene is so beautiful!]
[A child's first encounter with Ultraman under the moonlight! Wallpaper added!]
So, are we training human beings from a young age?
However, Gu Nan's scripts are never just about superficial warmth.
As mentioned earlier, the rhythmic sounds Musashi heard were actually the sounds of extraterrestrial communication.
Previously, when facing the Baltan aliens in space, Gauss did not engage in direct combat but chose to negotiate first.
This negotiation was intercepted by Earth's scientific research team, SRC.
Analysis shows that both sides were communicating at a frequency of 1420 MHz, which foreshadowed the later detection of this frequency by Musashi's robot, Clergon.
Of course, there is another point worth mentioning: the prototype of this toy is the Krechigon, a plundering tool made by the Banda aliens in episode 37 of Ultraman Seven.
The 1420 MHz used by the aliens is also a small Easter egg.
The United States has a program called SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
The plan is to receive messages from extraterrestrials by searching for radio waves with the same wavelengths as those used by them.
The reason for using 1420 MHz is that 1420 MHz is the frequency of the 21 cm spectral line emitted by a neutral hydrogen atom.
Hydrogen is the most abundant and ubiquitous element in the universe, so any sufficiently advanced civilization would likely know this frequency, thus making interstellar communication possible.
When Gu Nan saw this part, he couldn't help but admire that Tsuburaya's early story structure based on real events was truly a form of fantasy tokusatsu.
Meanwhile, the plot progresses rapidly, and Clermont finds that the source of the frequency is indeed Baltan.
However, at this moment, Baltan is inside the body of the Earth's native monster, the Dragon Devourer!
However, when faced with local monsters, the defense forces indiscriminately bombard them!
The fall of the Devourer Dragon could only force Baltan to reveal himself!
The plot begins to unfold when the Baltan aliens arrive at Earth's Relics Park.
The SRC, a non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting monsters, advocates for appeasing monsters through gentle means.
But just like when they faced the Devourer of Dragons, the Earth Defense Force still has to choose to fight the aliens!
In the image, the defense force's staff officer appears somber and cold under the glaring background light.
"Whether it's aliens or anything else, if they attack our country, we will definitely destroy them!"
Subsequently, the defense forces' warplanes relentlessly unleashed firepower upon the ruins park.
[666, the classic hawkish boss]
It's hard to judge now. With Staff Officer Kondo and Brigadier General Chung setting such a high bar, will this defense force be whitewashed later?
Whether or not he'll be redeemed later is unknown, but his current outrageous behavior will definitely provoke Baltan to retaliate!
[The entire Baltan clan, loyal to the end, are about to bring their people to Earth to be slaughtered again...]
In the scene, the plot suddenly takes a sharp turn for the worse.
Faced with the relentless bombardment by the defense forces, the Baltan aliens completely lost their patience.
The conflict began to escalate.
The two enormous pincers opened slightly, and it began to aim.
Earth Defense Force fighter jets roared in from all directions, flanking the area.
Then, all the missiles stopped in front of Baltan.
Immediately afterwards, the missiles bounced back along the same path, exploding in the air into clusters of orange-red flames.
Moreover, the beam fired by Baltan directly destroyed several of the defense force's fighter jets!
The defending forces' fighter jets had no time to escape and were completely wiped out.
Faced with this crisis, the children around him who had heard that Musashi had encountered aliens surrounded Cosmos, hoping that he could summon Ultraman to fight back.
However, when Musashi raised the Brilliant Stone high, there was no reaction.
[Ah, is it really a child's human form?]
No response?
Ultraman refused to transform?
[You're refusing after only your first transformation?]
[I think I understand something. Perhaps, for now, the victim is actually Baltan; he simply eliminated the defense forces that attacked him.]
Actually, this plot point becomes quite easy to understand when you consider the meaning of Gauss's name itself.
Cosmos - the universe.
Moreover, it specifically refers to an ordered universe.
Ultraman Cosmos does not represent indiscriminate violence, but rather order itself.
Everything in the universe operates according to its own inherent laws, and Gauss's existence was never meant to eliminate those "non-human" beings, but rather to safeguard the balance of the universe.
The scene cuts back to the Baltans.
From the moment it appeared, it has never launched an attack.
Its enormous pincers remained in a defensive posture, its body even slightly tilted backward, as if ready to retreat at any moment.
The defense forces launched those missiles first, and the fighter jets surrounded it first.
Its counterattacks, every single one, were aimed at the sky—at the targets of the defending forces that were firing at it.
It did not attack the cities on the ground, nor did it attack the crowds gathered in the squares.
It was simply defending itself.
According to the order of the universe, when a life form does not actively disrupt the balance but merely takes the minimum counterattack to protect itself, Ultraman Cosmos, as the order itself, has no right to interfere.
But for humans on the ground, this is clearly a threat. With such a powerful entity, one that even the defense forces cannot overcome, hovering overhead, no one can feel at ease.
Fortunately, after the defense forces' fighter jets were completely destroyed, the Baltan aliens did not linger.
Its body quickly retreated and disappeared.
Throughout the entire process, it did not show any intention to actively attack humans.
After the battle, the defense forces returned to the same target location, the place where Musashi claimed to have seen Ultraman.
The surveyors carried various instruments and walked around the wilderness for a whole day, but the screen only showed monotonous electromagnetic noise, and they found nothing.
There was nothing there.
This is practically pointing a finger at Musashi and saying: You're lying.
The scene shifts to a makeshift command tent.
The staff officer looked around at the ruins, kicked a tree that had been destroyed, and concluded that it was just a result of a lightning strike.
"No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a giant alien has crashed here."
He stood up and walked towards Musashi step by step as he spoke.
The camera slowly zoomed in as he walked.
The staff officer was already quite tall, and with this moving camera angle, an invisible sense of oppression was created, like a wall pressing down on Musashi.
"Just admit you lied and apologize to everyone right now!"
Musashi bit his lip, neither retreating nor speaking.
Just then, one of the officials who were maintaining order rushed over.
He is the father.
Even when facing a high-ranking official who was the advisor to his superior's superior and someone he rarely saw, he remained neither humble nor arrogant.
"Watch your mouth! Children have self-esteem too! Musashi never lies."
In that instant, Musashi's eyes reddened.
"I don't have time to waste with lying kids!"
After saying that, the staff officer strode away.
He took the brilliance stone out of his pocket and held it up to the staff officer.
The stone refracts a faint purple halo under the sunlight, unlike any other mineral on Earth.
Musashi's voice trembled slightly, yet remained exceptionally firm: "This is the evidence!"
The staff officer looked at the stone, his expression clearly saying, "I don't want to say another word."
He reached out and tried to snatch it.
Musashi abruptly withdrew his hand, threw it behind him, and turned to run.
What follows is a chase scene.
The camera was deliberately lowered, almost touching the ground as it moved. The most prominent features in the shot were no longer the adults' waists and legs, but the children's rapid, alternating footsteps, the dust they kicked up, and the hems of their clothes bouncing up and down as they ran.
The camera captures the chase from the child's perspective.
The tent poles that swept past me, the tables and chairs that wobbled from being bumped, and the staff officer's face, slightly distorted from the chase, looking down from above.
The most intriguing aspect is the soundtrack.
The background music, on the other hand, is light and bright, with a cheerful rhythm, like children playing a game of eagle catching chicks on the playground.
This contrast makes the chase scene less thrilling and more childlike.
It shifts the audience's focus from the outcome of "whether or not they can get the sapphire" to the process itself of "what the children are desperately trying to protect."
However, a child's legs can never outrun an adult's, especially when surrounded and intercepted by a large number of officials.
The pyroxene was ultimately stolen...