Chapter 27: Shocking secret

It was not through his ears, but directly echoed again and again deep in his mind.

Zhuxing Tuan's body suddenly stiffened.

That huge black coffin was calling to him.

Soon after, the members of the Ultraman Defense Team received orders from their superiors.

They smoothly transported that mysterious coffin to a Cosmic Electromagnetic Wave Research Institute of the Defense Force.

The perimeter of the institute was guarded to an extreme degree.

Guards every three steps, sentries every five steps; armed soldiers sealed the place off completely.

"Goodness, this is too extravagant!"

A team member muttered quietly, "What treasure could be inside?"

Another team member lowered his voice and said mysteriously:

"I've heard that while this place appears to be a research institute on the surface, actually, three hundred meters underground there is a secret facility! Its security standards are so high that even a nuclear bomb couldn't blast through!"

The team members' words made Zhuxing Tuan's doubts grow heavier.

What secrets do this institute and this coffin actually hide?

Red Coast Ruins.

Ye Wenjie silently watched the familiar uniforms of the Defense Force soldiers on the screen, and a strange emotion flickered in her heart.

When she saw the massive coffin being escorted by heavy troops, the things that had long troubled her suddenly became clear.

She muttered to herself.

"Humans are the invaders."

"It seems that no matter which time and space, humanity's selfish and greedy nature cannot be changed."

"This civilization is beyond saving."

She raised her head and looked at Zhuxing Tuan's face on the screen, filled with struggle and confusion.

"Only when the Lord descends can we be saved."

"In her world, the Trisolarans are her Lord."

"And in the world shown on that screen, Ultraman Jack might be that Earth's 'Lord'."

She suddenly began to yearn.

She longed for the Trisolarans and Ultraman Jack to descend together, using the most bloody and thorough means to completely cleanse humanity's original sin!

Cybertron.

On Optimus Prime's huge electronic screen, countless data streams flashed by, continuously analyzing that mysterious coffin.

"The material composing this coffin does not belong to Earth."

"It is not a product of human civilization, yet it was deeply buried in the deepest part of that planet's ocean."

Optimus Prime's analysis system reached a conclusion.

"A huge secret is hidden inside this coffin!"

That night, the mysterious coffin was escorted to the deepest part of the institute's underground.

Everything exuded an eerie aura.

After returning to the Defense Team's base, the members were still heatedly discussing.

"Why would a coffin be so mysterious? Even our Ultraman Defense Team has to guard against it strictly!"

"Exactly, what's going on with all this secrecy?"

Zhuxing Tuan sat alone in a corner chair, silent.

He frowned tightly, the boy's sorrowful words and the coffin's faint call echoing repeatedly in his mind.

The night grew deep.

Zhuxing Tuan lay in his bedroom, tossing and turning.

Just as he was drifting off, that calling voice sounded again in his mind!

This time it was clearer than ever before!

"Seiwen... Ultraman Seiwen..."

"Find out the truth!"

Zhuxing Tuan shot up from bed, his forehead drenched in cold sweat.

Drowsiness vanished instantly.

That voice was guiding him to a place.

He took a deep breath and changed his clothes.

Then he left the base silently,

and, following the voice's guidance, arrived at that heavily guarded Cosmic Electromagnetic Wave Research Institute.

What shocked him was that the armed Defense Force soldiers guarding the institute's perimeter were all lying unconscious on the ground, knocked out.

As if some mysterious power had instantaneously knocked them out.

Zhuxing Tuan's heart began to race.

He hesitated no longer, passing through checkpoint after checkpoint unimpeded, reaching the institute's innermost chamber.

The huge black coffin lay silently in the center of the room.

The strange symbols on the coffin's surface seemed to come alive, emitting a faint light that guided him.

Zhuxing Tuan stepped forward and, in an uncertain tone, asked softly:

"Is it you... who has been guiding me here?"

Just as his words fell, the huge coffin suddenly burst forth with a dazzling light!

The light instantly devoured Zhu Xingtuan's body.

Within the endless light,

Zhu Xingtuan felt that time and space had become distorted.

Countless images, like meteors, sped past his vision.

After an unknown amount of time, when the light faded, he found himself standing on a primitive and ancient tract of land.

Everything around him was both unfamiliar and familiar.

"This is…… I actually…… returned to Earth ten thousand years ago?!"

Zhu Xingtuan's mind went completely blank.

Just then, one after another, the bloodstained scrolls sealed by history unfolded slowly before his eyes.

That was the truth, buried ten thousand years ago.

A group of intelligent beings who loved peace and lived in harmony with nature were happily living on this vast land.

They were the Nongmaerte people.

However, disaster struck.

Invaders from beyond the sky, another species full of aggression and possessiveness, descended upon their homeland.

These invaders are none other than present-day humanity!

The ancestors of humanity,

used extremely brutal and bloody means,

to launch a frenzied slaughter and suppression of the Nongmaerte people!

They seized the land where the Nongmaerte people had lived for generations,

and claimed the planet as their own!

Finally,

The few surviving Nongmaerte people,

carrying an endless blood-soaked hatred,

were forced to flee into the deep, cold seabed, merely clinging to life.

The truth thus surfaced.

The Nongmaerte people are the true indigenous inhabitants of this planet!

And the Earth humans he had fought to protect all along are nothing but outright aggressors! They are slaughterers!

Super Beast World, the third parallel universe.

The Whale Shark King gazed at the bloody scene on the sky-screen, his face showing no surprise whatsoever.

"This world has always been survival of the fittest."

"Love? It's merely a pathetic excuse the weak invent to numb themselves."

He looked at the countless Golden Elephant Clan slaves beneath the loess,

and, in a tone as if watching a show, said to Sevin on the sky-screen:

"Human nature is greedy. Today these slaves want freedom; tomorrow they'll crave endless food; the day after, they'll desire wealth, status, and palaces!"

"Their desires can never be satisfied unless, from the very start, they remain in the lowest, most humble valley."

"Ultraman Sevin, now that you know the truth, how will you choose?"

"Don't let me, the Whale Shark King, down!"

Cybertron.

Dahuangfeng stared at the cruel history on the sky-screen, his entire body frozen.

He never imagined that the hero he had just admired, the just champion Ultraman Sevin, had actually been aiding the tyrant all along!

"How could…… how could this be……"

"Humans are the invaders! Sevin Ultraman…… he helped the invaders, slaughtering the natives who defended their homeland!"

Qingtianzhu fell silent.

He looked at the red giant trembling violently from the truth in the sky-screen, and with an immensely complex tone, slowly spoke.

"Ultraman, after seeing these truths, you…… how should you choose now?"