Chapter 58
Humanity's hope is boundless!
The crimson sphere floated silently in mid-air in the dimly lit warehouse.
"Wow, so beautiful." Risa looked up, her eyes reflecting the red color, and exclaimed from the bottom of her heart.
Yu Hirama, standing next to him, adjusted his glasses and muttered under his breath, "It just looks like a balloon that floats around."
"Don't talk about it as if it's alive."
Shinsei Mian was both excited and scared. He clenched his fists tightly, his body trembling slightly: "It's amazing."
Before the words were finished, the red ball suddenly shone brighter, turning the faces of the three children bright red.
Yu Hirama was startled by this sudden change, taking a step back in shock, almost falling. Looking around, she stammered, "It's...it's glowing!"
Risa turned to look at Tsutomu beside her and asked softly, "Is this your biggest wish?"
"Um!"
He nodded firmly, his eyes filled with longing for the unknown and admiration for his idol. "If any wish could really come true, then I want to see my dream!"
The red ball seemed to respond to his call, and its light reached its peak in an instant, dyeing the entire warehouse with a dreamlike red.
However, just a few seconds later, the light quickly dimmed again, and the red ball returned to its previous quiet, floating state, without any further movement.
"Uh, has it started?" Shinseki was stunned.
Yuya Hirama scratched his head in confusion: "Nothing happened, or is it already over?"
The two little ones looked at each other, completely bewildered as to what had happened.
Only Risa's expression was slightly complicated.
It has still started, the endless cycle of desire.
Lin Yu remained silent throughout; he simply stood to the side with his arms crossed, scrutinizing the red ball with a critical eye.
In his awakened perception of spacetime, the space around the sphere was undergoing an extremely subtle yet fundamental distortion.
This is interfering with spacetime at the level of purely physical rules.
Although his spacetime ability was powerful, it was based more on a mysterious power system, while the one in front of him was a cold, precise, and calculable technological creation.
"Tsk," Lin Yu thought to himself.
Unfortunately, I'm uncultured, so all I can say is "fuck!"
He really didn't understand how this thing worked.
Just then, a muffled and loud explosion suddenly came from above the tin roof of the warehouse.
Boom!
The entire warehouse trembled, and dust fell in gushes.
"What happened?"
"Was there an earthquake?"
The children were startled, but Lin Yu immediately pulled Risa aside and said casually, "Let's go out and take a look."
The group rushed out of the warehouse, and when they looked up, they were instantly stunned by the sight before them.
Above the azure sky, a vast, shimmering sea appeared, its surface seemingly inverted, enveloping the entire city.
Sunlight pierces through the "sea surface," casting dappled light and shadow, creating a dreamlike scene.
Immediately afterwards, a uniquely designed, futuristic gray fighter jet, like a flying fish breaking through the water's surface, suddenly appeared from the reflected sea.
As the fighter jets appeared, the illusion of the sea in the sky quickly dissipated like the receding tide, and everything returned to normal, as if the spectacular scene had never happened.
"It's EX, it's the EX fighter jet!"
Shinseiki Mian instantly recognized the plane. His face flushed with excitement, and he pointed to the sky, shouting, "It must be my dream sitting inside! My dream has come!"
The boy disregarded everything else and sprinted toward the direction the fighter jet had flown, shouting his idol's name all the while.
"Hey, Tsutomu, wait for me." Yuya Hirama hurriedly chased after him.
In the blink of an eye, only Lin Yu and Risa remained in the same spot.
They didn't chase after him, but walked slowly side by side on the quiet street, the autumn sunlight casting long shadows of the two of them.
"Is this the power of the red ball?" Lin Yu asked.
"Mm." Risa nodded.
"That's a nice touch."
Lin Yu pondered for a moment, "I can also use my own power to travel through time and space to the past and change history."
He tried to activate his spacetime abilities to sense the spacetime barriers of this world, and after a moment, he came to a conclusion.
"But I am not a person of this world, and the rules of spacetime are rejecting me. I must form a deeper 'connection' with this world and gain its approval in order to modify its timeline on a large scale. Of course, I can still do it on a small scale, such as a few minutes or hours."
Lin Yu continued, "At the very least, I need to make the world acknowledge my existence."
Risa fell silent, listening quietly, her small figure appearing particularly frail beside Lin Yu.
After a long silence, she gently shook her head, her voice filled with unbearable sorrow: "It's no use. My origins are beyond comprehension. You cannot restart me from the root; at most, you can only restart this world. And you must go to the world of origin."
She raised her head, her pure eyes filled with pain. "But countless parallel worlds have already been destroyed by me. Because of the different timelines, even if the red sphere is restarted, those lost lives will still not return."
"Perhaps you can do it, big brother. But that requires you to modify one world after another, to save one world after another. That is... endless time and space."
By the end, her voice was trembling with tears.
Lin Yu fell silent and scratched his head.
He felt that this thing wasn't actually difficult to solve, just a bit troublesome. Although the red ball was a creation at the multiverse level, it would ultimately have to return to individual universes to function. All he needed to do was find the originating universe where it resided and erase it along with the civilization that created it.
The problem is that he can eliminate creation, but he cannot eliminate human desires.
One red ball falls, but thousands upon thousands of red balls will rise. Since the humans in that dimension can create such a thing, their technological level is probably unimaginably high, perhaps even to the point of threatening him, Ultraman.
As long as the desire remains, the red ball will reappear sooner or later, at worst just under a different name, like some kind of "Desire Grand Prix" or something similar.
It's hard not to connect high technology and desire.
"So...in the end, they're still going to destroy the world?" Risa lowered her head, her voice filled with sadness.
"No."
A warm, large hand gently landed on her little head and rubbed it tenderly.
Risa looked up and saw Lin Yu facing her, a confident and radiant smile on his face.
"Don't underestimate humans."
He smiled and said, "The brilliance of humanity is limitless!"
"If you ask why..." Lin Yu's smile grew even brighter.
"That's me, I've arrived."
Faintly, behind him, a tall, golden figure appeared and disappeared, magnificent and imposing, reaching to the heavens and connecting with the earth.
A divine radiance, like a giant descending to earth, quietly bathed the illusory pale golden particles formed by the children's light.