The legend of Tiga

The happier you are in the last second, the sadder you will be in the next second.

The TPC executives in the underground safe house in Mars City, who had just revealed their smiles because of Asuka Shin's great power in blowing up seven or eight Sphia spheres in one breath, suddenly froze before their smiles could reach their brightest. The joy in their eyes turned into shock and panic.

The red war dragon exploded into a red fireball. The raging flames were as red as blood, blooming in mid-air, illuminating the sky and reflecting the red on the ground. A hideous rock-colored head was also shot out, staring with five frightened eyes, looking up at the flames spreading in the sky. The stalagmite-like horns on the top of the head were still flashing orange-yellow light. It was obvious that the destructive beam that just hit the crimson war dragon was shot from here.

The monster's head emerged from the broken seal of light. The X in the center had been completely shattered, leaving only the surrounding rings, which were still trying to suppress the monster, rubbing and colliding with the monster's rock-like spikes, splashing sparks.

The situation was like a mineral water bottle trying hard to drill into a rubber tube, forcibly expanding the opening which was only half its size, squeezing it and cracking it, and finally shattering it, allowing the monster to return to the real world from its sealed place and step on the ground of Mars. The weight of tens of thousands of tons made the ground of Mars tremble, splashing up waves of dust.

Then, the monster opened its mouth and let out a loud roar that spread and echoed in the night sky, shaking the ground, the city, and even people's hearts.

"The monster broke the seal."

The fear brought by the giant creature made it difficult for people to speak clearly, and they could only stammer when speaking a simple sentence.

After the monster landed, the impact brought by its tens of thousands of tons of weight was transmitted to the ground through the heavy earth and rocks, causing the entire room to shake.

Although the magnitude was very slight, it made people feel uneasy, as if they would be buried at any time, and the psychological pressure was extremely huge.

But these are insignificant compared to the monsters that have broken the seal.

The behemoth, dozens of meters high, stood on the ground. Even with its waist bent, it was still as huge as a mountain. Even through the screen, the depressed people opened their mouths but could not utter a word. They just stood there, staring blankly, the fear and despair in their hearts rapidly growing.

In the dead silence, someone muttered, "It's all Tiga's fault for not destroying the monster."

It seemed to be an unintentional remark, but in the silence, it was so loud that people couldn't help but turn their heads and look in the direction where the voice came from, and then they saw Staff Officer Inoue standing in the corner.

Noticing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Staff Officer Inoue realized that he had just spoken out of shock. He thought that he had just thought about it in his mind, but he said it out loud unconsciously because he was too scared.

"I, I." Staff Officer Inoue wanted to defend himself, but when he opened his mouth, he didn't know how to "quibble" to make up for his words.

Everyone's attention was drawn to that, so no one noticed that the ball of fire that exploded in the air did not dissipate as the fragments of the crimson war dragon flew everywhere. Instead, it became brighter and brighter, and was particularly dazzling against the backdrop of the dark night.

By the time someone noticed it, the ball of light had expanded into a huge ball of light with a diameter of over 100 meters, falling from the air to the ground with a light posture.

"Look, Tiga is coming." A young guard pointed at the big screen that occupied one wall and shouted with great joy. Being in the endless darkness, seeing the light always makes people so excited and happy.

This shout made everyone turn their eyes and see the light shining from the upper left corner of the screen. Then the camera on the ground turned and 'moved' the light to the center of the screen, allowing everyone to clearly see this huge and dazzling light.

"What a bright moon."

"It's Tiga. Tiga is back."

"Great, we are saved."

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Everyone was ecstatic, and the previous dejection was swept away. There was no more fear and anxiety.

Because every time in the past, no matter how great the danger was, as long as Tiga appeared, the city and even the world would always be saved.

So, when seeing such a dazzling light appear in the night sky, everyone’s first reaction was "Tiga is back."

Only Director Fukami asked in confusion: "Shouldn't the message take two hours to arrive?"

"Yes, Director, it will take at least two hours for the information sent from Mars City to reach Pluto," the secretary named Yamada said hurriedly, "It should be that the seal was broken and Tiga sensed it, so he rushed back."

"Is that right?"

Director Fukami spoke in an imperceptible voice, his eyes fixed on the ball of light that almost occupied half of the screen. It had fallen from the sky to the ground, and the light it emitted was becoming more and more dazzling, so much so that even through the screen, people couldn't help but raise their hands and cover their eyes to block out the overly bright light.

But in Pluto's orbit, no matter what time it is, it is impossible to see light that is dazzling to the human eye, because it is too far away from the sun, a full 6 billion kilometers.

It takes five or six hours for light to reach here. In such a long time, even a pot of hot water will turn into cold water. Therefore, when the sunlight shines here, it is already extremely cold and cannot give people any warmth. Even Pluto has become a frozen planet with extremely low temperatures everywhere. If you drop a piece of iron there, it will be frozen into pieces.

This is also the terrifying thing about Pluto. The temperature is as low as -230 degrees Celsius, which is unimaginably low. Even bones made of steel will be frozen so brittle that they will break with a single squeeze. Of course, that is, provided that your hands can still move.

But in such a horrific world with unimaginably low temperatures, there is a smiling human face. Rocks and methane ice that are so cold that cells will instantly die if touched have formed a huge female smiling face on the surface of Pluto.

When Tiga flew to the other side of Pluto, he saw this huge smiling face at a glance. It was 70% similar to a human female, and at first glance, it gave people the feeling that "she was smiling."

No wonder it is considered a cosmic oddity and has been debated for so many years. It is indeed an amazing discovery.

If it wasn't man-made.

Yes, this wonder, like parchment and papyrus that are thousands of years old but still intact, was manufactured.

It's just that the fakes on Earth are made by humans, while the fake "smiley face" on Pluto was made by the Sphia sphere in the original book. The purpose is to attract humans to send spacecraft here, and then sneak into the spacecraft to enter the earth quietly.

This is one of the reasons why Tiga came here personally, to nip the danger in the bud and not let the Sphia Sphere have a chance to reach the earth, let alone give it a chance to absorb the Max power system and fuse into an extremely powerful monster. In fact, Tiga has always been wondering whether the growing power of the Sphia Synthetic Beast is related to the continuous evolution of the Sphia Sphere?
From the initial fusion of Martian soil, to the later acquisition of the Max power system, to the creation of Ultraman by the Police Bureau, all of them were parasitized by the Sphia sphere. If they cannot strengthen themselves after obtaining so many "materials", it would be too much of a biological weapon.

Especially the Sphia Sphere, which has always shown fusion. No matter whether it is a living thing or a material thing, whether it is organic, inorganic, or even just a concept, as long as it is favored by the Sphia Sphere, it can be integrated.

With such a strong ability to integrate, would you not know how to extract the essence and discard the dross?
the answer is negative.

As the "top stream" biological weapon, the Sphia Sphere definitely knows these, and its manufacturing will also have such a "procedure".

Let the Sphia Sphere continuously optimize itself through repeated swallowing and fusion, so that it can become more and more powerful until it becomes invincible in the universe.

It is so easy to deduce the cause from the result.

Therefore, Tiga's attitude towards Sphia is to guard against it strictly. He would rather work hard himself and try his best to prevent the fusion and evolution of Sphia's sphere.

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The situation is not quite what I thought.

Tiga continued to fly forward and looked around. All he saw was darkness and starlight. There was no trace of Lomus III.

"How could it not be?"

Tiga frowned. He had searched everywhere around him, but still couldn't find Lomus No. 3. Could it be that it had really been merged?

No, no!
Tiga immediately comforted himself in his heart, maybe it was Romus No. 3 who struggled to escape?

Although it was a research vessel and had almost no weapons installed, it was equipped with the latest Neomax propulsion system, which could propel the Lomus III to fly at sub-light speed.

Therefore, it is not impossible to escape.

so.
Ok?
what is that?
At this moment, Tiga caught a glimpse of a very small silver dot out of the corner of his eye. It was not much bigger than the tip of a needle and its brightness was extremely low, almost equivalent to a candle ten kilometers away. If it were not for the extraordinary vision of Tiga's Ultra Eye, he would never have been able to discover this silver dot that could not be any smaller.

Is it the Los No. 3?
Tiga immediately changed direction and flew towards the 'silver dot'. His whole body was filled with a faint light and was clearly visible in the universe. At an extremely fast speed, he drew an arc of light on the dark curtain and rushed towards the 'silver dot' floating in the universe.

The extremely fast speed caused the 'silver dot' to rapidly enlarge, and also caused Tiga's heart, which had just risen a little, to sink again.

Because the 'Silver Dot' is flat in shape and silver-gray in appearance, it looks like a manta ray, which is completely different from the 'full' Los Mus No. 3.

Although it was not the target, Tiga continued to fly forward. After all, this was also a man-made aircraft, so he went over to see what was going on.

As he got closer, he could see it more clearly, allowing Tiga to recognize it at once: "Plasma Hundred-Shiki? Why is it here?"

This is another new navigation system based on plasma propulsion engines that was developed in parallel with the Max Propulsion System - Zero Drive.

When both sides were in the theoretical stage, Max Dynamics proposed a three-step strategy: first reaching sub-light speed, then catching up with the speed of light, and finally exceeding the speed of light.

However, Dr. Yaoi was unable to give an exact time for when the Max propulsion system would reach the speed of light. He only said that the Max propulsion system had the potential to catch up with the speed of light.

However, Zero Drive can theoretically reach the speed of light in one step. As for exceeding the speed of light, it is also supported by mathematical models and equations.

Just looking at the data and theories on paper, Zero Drive has great advantages and unlimited potential. In an era where one percent represents a crushing victory, such a powerful Zero Drive is obviously the answer to this version, which makes many people very optimistic about Zero Drive.

But the results are quite different.

In early 2005, the test flight of Unit 0, which was used to verify the Max propulsion system, was successful. The observed speed reached sub-light speed and it showed extremely high stability and excellent performance. However, the test machine of Unit drive was delayed, which put great pressure on the Unit drive team.

In order to speed up the progress and achieve the ideal speed, the R&D team made a bold move. The escape device was removed from the test aircraft, and the life support system was reduced to the minimum standard that was enough to complete only one flight. In short, everything that could be removed was removed to minimize the weight of the test aircraft.

According to the theory of relativity, the mass of an object is proportional to the square of its velocity.

When the speed approaches the speed of light, the mass will also approach infinity. Therefore, in order to reach the speed of light, infinite energy is required to continue accelerating. However, infinite energy does not exist in reality, which makes the speed of light an insurmountable limit.

Although Zero Drive breaks the speed of light wall by sinking mass into imaginary space, it still needs to follow the physical laws of the real world before entering the imaginary space. Therefore, the greater the weight, the more energy is required.

Therefore, the lighter the test machine, named Plasma Hundred Type, the greater the possibility of success and the higher the speed it can achieve.

After removing all the removable weight, the Plasma Hundred was finally completed and began its first flight test five months after the success of the Max power system.

The test was very successful. The plasma 100 easily surpassed the sub-light speed that the Max power system had tried so hard to reach, and reached the speed of light within the observable range of the TPC.
They disappeared together.

The moment the test aircraft Plasma Hyakushiki exceeded the speed of light, it instantly flew out of TPC's observable range with the test pilot Asuka Kazuma, and has never been seen since.

So much so that Asuka and Yima became a legend: the man who disappeared in the light.

But today, the Plasma Hundred Style, which had disappeared for twelve years, appeared in the orbit of Pluto, and was still drifting without power, spinning around Pluto. It had obviously been captured by Pluto's orbit, and was using gravity to pull the Plasma Hundred Style towards the ground.

"Why are you here? Why are you here now?"

Two questions popped up in Tiga's mind. (End of this chapter)