Chapter 18: What to Protect

Makoto Chiba, who took a shinkansen and a car home for a day yesterday, put on a backpack with food, stepped on a kettle, took a camera, and set off again.

It took seven or eight hours to get from Chiba to Okinawa, and then to the ferry, to arrive at his destination, Kura Island, and when he came out of the pier, it was already full of stars.

Yesterday I went home in the morning and arrived home at dusk, today I left in the morning and arrived in the evening, and I have been in this world for two days, and I have not done anything, and I have all been on the road.

didn't choose to transform into Tiga and fly over, although it saves money, but there will be trouble, after all, he can't be sure when Gakuma will come out, in case he was discovered by the TPC people while waiting near the quarry, how to explain that there is no record of landing on the island and swims over?

In the TV series, the time is limited to focusing on the quarry infested by monsters, but in fact, Kura Island is a large island with an area of nearly 300 square kilometers, scattered along the coast with houses and farmland, and the south and middle of the island are hills, and the quarry that Makoto Chiba is looking for is in the southernmost part of the island.

According to the host of the accommodation, the quarry is the pillar industry of the island, and the sand and gravel required for paving roads, building docks, building walls, burning paper cement, etc., all come from the quarry, after all, it is five or six hundred kilometers away from Honshu Island.

Moreover, the existence of quarries has also provided many jobs on the island, and every family on the island has people there or have been there to dig stones to earn money to support their families.

After listening to the introduction of the locals, Chiba Makoto's mood became a little heavy, lying on the bed for a long time and unable to sleep, the residents of the island need the stones of the quarry to repair the bridge and repair the road, and also need the work provided by the quarry to support their families.

From the ancient Stone Age, until now, stone is an indispensable and irreplaceable resource for human society, to take the simplest example - concrete, cement is fired from limestone, and sand and gravel need to be added when used, without concrete, high-rise buildings, bridges, highways, all of which are impossible to talk about.

Gakuma eats stones for a living, and is competing with humans for the limited mineral resources of stones, as well as the islanders, will they be comfortable living with the two monsters? Don't you worry about the monster eating the rocks of the island and sinking the island?

Send away...

Where to send to? Is there anything else on this planet that humans can't set foot on? As long as humans can reach it, Gakuma doesn't want to live a quiet life, TPC is not the EYES of Gosri, and the victory team is not a team to protect monsters, they are going to destroy monsters.

As for helping humans dispose of garbage, how to ensure that the monsters do not attack the people and vehicles that carry the garbage, and obediently turn the garbage transported by humans into stones, and then eat the stomach. As for the transportation costs, you can't put the monster on the edge of the city, if it's hundreds or thousands of kilometers, the freight is high enough to make the garbage out of the price of gold.

Even if all of the above is taken into account, how much garbage can monsters help humans dispose of?

Ray attacks are extremely energy-intensive, and Tiga estimates that if you fire two or three rays of full power, you will run out of energy, how much garbage can Gakuma petrify, and how many stones do you need to eat to make up for it? It is estimated that one piece of petrified garbage needs to eat ten parts of stone to make it up.

The topic has come back to the snatching of resources, Gakuma eats the stones that humans also need, and in order to snatch resources, humans can have brains inside, not to mention monsters that are not of our race.

"Alas!" Chiba Makoto sighed deeply, the human being who faced the monster for the first time was full of fear of the monster, and no one would sympathize with or even want to protect the monster, and even feel that the person who had this idea was either crazy or stupid.

From an objective point of view, Gakuma and humans compete for stone resources, and whoever destroys them is the natural law of the jungle; But from the perspective of human beings, it is unforgivable for monsters to hurt humans, and they must be eliminated to protect humans.

Dagu is both light and human, so what about himself? Is that also the case? Do you want to be like him, to destroy Gakuma?

Chiba Makoto didn't know, he didn't think too much about it, but then he realized that there were a lot of things to think about, if he was just a simple human, then he didn't have to think too much, just shout to kill the monster, but he was Ultraman.

Chiba Makoto stared at the divine light stick in his hand and muttered in a low voice, "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 the matter of the monster here has been known and intervened by TPC.

This made Chiba Makoto hurry up and finally rushed to the quarry, only to find that it was already under martial law, and people in TPC uniforms were guarding the intersection and prohibiting anyone from entering, even if they took out their press cards, it was useless, and there was no way to understand what was going on inside.

Makoto Chiba, who had been squatting until the evening and nothing had happened, returned disappointed, walking down the road dejectedly, accidentally catching a glimpse of a hard hat hanging outside the house, and suddenly thinking that the miners were all local, and they must know about the quarry.

As soon as I entered the village, I heard the sound of mournful crying coming from a room on the left, and many people from the village gathered in the courtyard, sighing and discussing, and this happened in many courtyards in the village.

As soon as the motorcycle was parked, the owner's uncle also came back from outside, Chiba Makoto hurriedly inquired, and then he learned that it was a woman who was grieving the loss of her husband, a child crying and losing her father, and an old man who was grieving the loss of her son.

The owner sighed and said: "The villagers who went down the well yesterday morning just came back, they said that many people have turned into stones, and now TPC is also here, it seems that the legendary Gakuma is real, you leave quickly, here... Alas, I hope TPC can destroy the monster, otherwise I have to find a way to move it away, and the monster is actually on the island, which is really terrifying. ”

After the owner finished speaking, he went into the house to get some things and went out again, leaving Chiba Cheng standing in the yard, as if there was a storm in his heart.

He had been thinking about whether Ultraman was protecting humans or the earth, thinking about the relationship between monsters and humans, thinking about ways to keep Gakuma alive, and thinking about many, many lofty philosophies.

But I forgot to think about it, those miners who died were human beings, living people.

They are the pillars of a family, the wife needs her husband to earn money to support the family, the children need the father to earn money to study and buy toys, and the parents need the son to earn money to support them.

Unlike the city, there are many office buildings and all kinds of factories, even the old and weak can find easy jobs, and the people on the island basically rely on farming and fishing for a living, and there is also quarry work, and these heavy jobs are inseparable from strong men.

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

It's hard beyond imagination.