Chapter 44: Is Tailuo a second‑generation official

Sai botan star, Overlord Heaven Tiger Base.

Hongzhizhu's mechanical arm heavily slapped the console's armrest, emitting a piercing metallic clang.

"Boss, look! What did I say?"

It pointed to the dim and sorrowful Tuoleijiya on the skylight, its voice full of excitement and pride at discovering a huge secret.

"The Blue Tribe Ultraman of the Land of Light is the oppressed, excluded lower class."

"How can that Red Tribe's Tailuo easily pass the evaluation? While this blue Tuoleijiya was mercilessly eliminated?"

"Isn't this enough to prove that the Land of Light's interior is full of unknown divisions and darkness?"

Weizhendian's crimson electronic eyes flickered as he slowly nodded, but then he added.

"No, Hongzhizhu, you only saw the surface."

His voice was low and magnetic, carrying an insight that could see through everything.

"This isn't just a simple racial conflict. Did you notice that the one called Tailuo is the son of the Father of Ultra?"

"He is truly a second-generation official, the Crown Prince of the Land of Light!"

"And this Tuoleijiya is just a background-less, ordinary Blue Tribe Ultraman. So, his rejection from the center of power is only natural!"

Hongzhizhu's processor instantly overloaded, and it suddenly realized!

That's how it is!

There's still this layer of relationship!

It immediately adopted a flattering posture and fawned over Weizhendian.

"Boss, you're really smart! How could I not have thought of this?"

"Only you have truly seen through the essence of these hypocritical giants!"

"They claim to be guardians of the universe, but they're really just a class‑fixed bureaucratic system!"

The skylight picture continued to flow.

The Tuoleijiya who failed to join the Space Guard did not therefore become completely despondent.

He poured all his energy into research at the Space Science and Technology Bureau.

He stayed in the lab day and night, studying the mysteries of the universe and developing new technology.

In this process, his ideas gradually diverged irreconcilably from those of the Land of Light.

Light and darkness ought to be mutually dependent and intertwined.

Yet on the planet called the Land of Light, he saw not a trace of darkness, only unchanging, even blinding light.

Moreover, witnessing Hikari's bewildered state due to revenge dealt a huge blow to his mindset.

Finally, that day still arrived.

Tailuo once again eagerly brought his best friend Tuoleijiya to Titan Planet for training.

When they were attacked by monsters, the difference in their fighting styles was infinitely magnified.

Tailuo had no extra tricks; he charged straight at the monster like a red cannonball, fighting with pure strength.

Tuoleijiya, however, used all the technology and skills he had developed, yet still could not inflict effective damage on the monster.

In the end, he could only stand helplessly aside, watching Tailuo and the monster engage in that primitive, violent melee.

The aftershock of the battle flung him away.

A deadly beam spewed from the monster's mouth and precisely struck the fallen Tuoleijiya on the ground.

In the impact of the beam's energy, he seemed to see an entirely new world.

A world full of darkness yet utterly real.

In that dark world, only the self that embraced darkness was truly himself!

The battle ended.

Tailuo easily defeated the monster and ran over excitedly to share the joy of victory.

But what he saw was Tuoleijiya's resolutely retreating back.

Tuoleijiya left Tailuo, left the Land of Light.

He never returned, instead wandering the universe alone.

Super Beast World, Fifth Parallel Universe, Underworld.

The Underworld King sat silently on his throne, unfazed by the scene displayed on the skylight.

The truth of the universe is simply yin‑yang balance: where there is light, there must be shadow.

"Land of Light……"

The Underworld King murmured softly, his voice echoing in the vast hall.

"A place that tolerates no darkness at all is like the Snow Emperor's so‑called love: it ruthlessly squeezes out anything that doesn't meet their standards until there's no room to survive."

He seemed to see the shadow of his own Wolf Tribe in Tuoleijiya.

"The Ultraman named Tuoleijiya, his departure, is inevitable."

Inside the Overlord Heaven Tiger Base.

Weizhendian watched the whole process of Tuoleijiya's departure from the Land of Light, and a appreciative smile appeared on his metal face.

In his mind, he had already definitively characterized the Land of Light.

A hypocritical facade hiding an interior full of corruption and bureaucratic deceit.

Their Crown Prince Tailuo can enter the center of power without effort and enjoy boundless glory.

Meanwhile, the background‑less Blue Tribe Ultraman is mercilessly excluded, ultimately forced to leave home and wander the universe.

"Ultraman, you guys aren't as noble and upright as you appear on the surface!"

"I really admire this Tuoleijiya."

In Weizhen Tian's electronic eyes, the fire of greed and ambition blazed fiercely.

"I really want to unite these oppressed Blue Clan Ultramans and together trample your false Land of Light underfoot!"

Trisolaran Fleet, command center.

Chief Scientist 3056's thought fluctuations were unusually calm.

Their view on this matter differed from Weizhen Tian's.

"Objectively speaking, this Blue Clan Ultraman Toregaya failed to be selected for the Universal Defense Force; this result is completely unsurprising to me."

"According to my calculations, the energy level he displayed then was entirely insufficient to meet the selection standard, namely the Nova Grade."

"Therefore, his failure to be selected, from a scientific perspective, is quite normal; there is no exclusion or favoritism, purely a matter of not meeting the standard."

After witnessing the awe-inspiring strength of the Ultraman Defense Force,

and after their selfless guardianship of weak civilizations in the universe,

within the fleet, most Trisolarans' view of the Land of Light had quietly changed.

That pure hostility and contempt,

are being replaced by a complex emotion mixed with awe and incomprehension.

The previously most radical,

and the hawkish military officer who held prejudice against the Land of Light also spoke up now.

His thought fluctuations were no longer filled with hysterical aggression as before.

His view of the Ultraman civilization also seemed to be quietly changing.

"Speaking factually, that is indeed the case. However, this cannot completely rule out the possibility of ethnic oppression existing in the Land of Light."

"After all, with such a huge number of Blue Clan Ultramans, yet hardly any able to touch the core of power, this in itself is highly suspicious."

At this moment,

This hawkish military officer no longer blindly released hostility, but instead conducted a relatively objective evaluation.

Just as everyone in the myriad worlds thought the Land of Light's internal contradictions were about to be fully exposed,

The image on the celestial screen flickered again.

This time, a blue Ultraman figure appeared before the eyes of all civilizations.

His stature was tall and straight, his demeanor calm, and he bore an elegance and wisdom utterly different from that of the Red Clan warriors.

【He is Hikari Ultraman, and also a Blue Clan Ultraman】

The subtitles on the celestial screen slowly appeared.

【He is merely a low-ranking civil official】