Chapter 3 The Planet Daily
Of course, this is not to say that outside of the gigantic state, Richard is completely just an ordinary person who is powerless.
First of all, in addition to being gigantic, Nexus can also adjust his height and size while transforming, just like most other Ultramans. At present, Richard has found that his limit is to grow up to 49 meters tall, and the minimum can shrink to the size of an ant - at this stage, the upper and lower limits may continue to increase in the future.
The smaller the size of the Ultraman form, the less energy is required. If he only maintains the normal human size, the energy required will be greatly reduced, but he should still be able to eat in this form.
But even if it's just an ordinary human size, it's Ultraman's power, and it still has quite terrifying strength - or rather, in fact, compressing the size is a way to save energy, and it has no effect on its own combat effectiveness. Although the sparrow is small, it is Ultraman, and its strength should not be underestimated.
Even in the state of not changing the body, the physical strength of the Ultraman human body is far beyond the limits of human beings. Richard had found a chance to test that his current physical body had Captain America-level physical strength without being in his body state - and only now. The degree of fusion between his body and Ultraman's power is not very high, so for the time being, he only has this level of strength, and even if he transforms, he can only barely maintain his ordinary silver juvenile form.
Richard was a young reporter in China in his previous life before the crossing, and he also liked what he did. It is precisely because of this influence that he chose to devote himself to this industry again after being reborn. Only this time he is no longer a small reporter running news on the front line, but a boss who blows the air conditioner in the office and scolds the command.
Journalism is good. Gabriel García Márquez once said: Journalism is the best profession in the world. Such an assertion may be too subjective, but Richard feels that it is understandable.
Márquez said that journalism is a passion that can never be satisfied, and that it can only be unleashed when it encounters reality. The meaning of the existence of journalism lies in disclosure, in supervision, and in allowing the world to always clearly see the truth as it is. What is reported in the news is often easier to dominate people's minds, promote the right values, and, more importantly, lead people to think for themselves.
But Richard, who was a journalist in his previous life, certainly understood that journalism also has taboos. In any case, journalism itself is made up of people, and wherever there are people, there will inevitably be interests involved.
In many cases, something is true, but you just can't say it out loud.
Sometimes many things are clearly wrong, but you just have to reverse right and wrong with a clear conscience.
Even Richard himself had to admit that he was part of the participants. Sometimes, when he writes a manuscript with a clear conscience, he even hates his own work, so much so that he doesn't want to look at it again after it's published.
But now, things are different.
Now, Richard has his own newspaper and a large number of reporters who are not afraid of power and dare to stand their ground in any situation. No matter what the content, as long as his reporters dare to write it, he dares to publish it. From Hollywood stars to business tycoons, from the top of the military to political tycoons, the more people in high positions have more news to dig into.
In just a few years, the Planet Daily has grown from its founding to today as one of the largest newspapers in New York City, and the newspaper owner Richard Lee has risen in value. The daily planet has also become the best-selling newspaper among the citizens for no other reason than because they dare to write and say anything.
As for those bigwigs who have been exposed and are embarrassed and angry, will they retaliate?
Hehe, you've crossed into Ultraman, and you're still afraid of this?
Then Richard thought he might as well find a piece of tofu and kill him.
Just like the plot of the Marvel movie "The Incredible Hulk 2", last night a lieutenant colonel under General Ross was injected with Hulk's serum and transformed into an abomination-like monster. The sudden acquisition of that dream-like power carried away the abomination, and for a moment he truly felt that he was invincible in this world. He rammed through the streets of New York with impunity, crushing General Ross's troops head-on, inflicting untold losses.
According to the original plot of the movie, it should be General Ross's old enemy, Hulk Hulk, who stepped in to deal with it, and fought an earth-shattering battle with Abomination on the streets of New York, and finally was able to subdue Abomination. But who knew that last night, the hatred was scattered for half of the day, and the whole street was about to be demolished for him, and Hulk, who was supposed to be the protagonist of the story, still didn't jump out to save the world.
Richard didn't want to make such a casual move, after all, his move would definitely be earth-shattering, and it would undoubtedly cause an uproar around the world, and the world may not be ready to accept an existence like him.
But the situation is that the abomination was demolished all the way down the street, and it was almost demolished to the door of his newspaper office. If he doesn't jump out and punch the abomination again, then the next one to collapse will be his planetary daily, which is the hard work of his business for several years......
But Richard thought about it, anyway, this power will have to be shown to the world sooner or later, and it doesn't matter if it's sooner or later.
Richard doesn't really have a hero complex, and he prefers to run his own newspaper and live his life in peace and stability than running around the world like a firefighter all day long. To be honest, he actually thinks it's really strange that an ordinary person like himself can be favored by the light, because he feels that he is obviously not the kind of hero who would sacrifice himself to protect the world.
However, he felt that since he had obtained this power, he should still let it work. He doesn't plan to be a full-time superhero like the Avengers, spending his days with some supercriminals falling in love and killing each other, it's like a game of cat and mouse that never ends.
But if one day, a disaster that even those superheroes can't resist befalls this world and his side...... If one day the world really needs Ultraman, then he will fight, without hesitation.