novelslam Chapter 235 Seagulls Take Flight, A Tribute to the Heroes Who Went Against the Tide!
Chapter 235 Seagulls Take Flight, A Tribute to the Heroes Who Went Against the Tide!
Not long ago, when Dyna was still ongoing and Gaia was still in production.
Jinghai City, Chasing Light Film Studio.
As the morning sunlight pierced through the floor-to-ceiling windows, a vehicle bearing the words "Jinghai City Fire Brigade" slowly pulled up in front of the building.
Several fire safety education officers, dressed in crisp uniforms, entered the reception room, personally greeted by Gu Nan.
"Director Gu, I've long admired your name."
Team leader Wang warmly shook Gu Nan's hand, "The reason we're bothering you this time is mainly because our media convergence center has recognized the huge influence of 'Ultraman Gaia' among young people."
"We hope to achieve an in-depth promotional collaboration, making Ultraman Gaia our ambassador for fire safety knowledge."
Upon hearing this, Gu Nan's eyes lit up, and he readily agreed: "This is great news! Chasing Light Pictures will certainly do its duty. Ultraman fights to protect life, which aligns perfectly with the spirit of you heroes."
During the ensuing in-depth discussion, Gu Nan quickly identified the outline for the ninth episode of "Gaia" in his mind.
In the original storyline, episode nine itself was centered around the "Seagull Team," which focused on rescue operations.
Gu Nan immediately decided to make significant improvements to the original storyline, giving the Seagull Team's actions more of the feel of real fire and rescue teams.
In this episode, he aims to convey to tens of millions of viewers the most practical disaster relief methods and the admirable quality of humanity's unwavering spirit in the face of disaster.
After seeing off the fire brigade personnel, Gu Nan immediately convened the screenwriting team.
Professional fire safety and self-rescue knowledge, as well as psychological intervention techniques for rubble, can all be more naturally integrated into the dialogue and storyboarding.
……
At 8 PM on Friday, tokusatsu fans across the internet were glued to their screens.
As the brief but stirring symphonic opening theme ended, the screen went dark, and the title of the ninth episode slowly appeared—"The Seagulls Take Flight."
The main feature begins.
The scene cuts to the XIG air base.
For the first time, the man who always piloted the Peace transport plane and often accompanied Director Di Cheng, Kamiyama, took off his signature sunglasses in front of the camera.
His true identity is the captain of the "Seagull Team," a permanent XIG squadron responsible for extreme rescue operations.
Inside the Seagulls' hangar, young team member Matsuo was meticulously cleaning rescue equipment, while Mike, a foreign Black team member, stood beside him.
"The rescue equipment was sparkly."
Matsuo looked at the spotless equipment, his tone tinged with eagerness to make a name for himself, "Mike, this will come in handy later. Our Seagull team will definitely become more and more active, right, Captain?"
However, Captain Shenshan stopped what he was doing and looked at him with a deep gaze.
"Mike, our Seagulls are a rescue team."
Shenshan's voice was extremely calm: "It's best to avoid a situation where we need to be deployed."
"That's right, it's best not to let anything happen that causes people to suffer."
"Of course, this is the best way."
Mike chimed in.
This extremely brief dialogue scene instantly struck a chord with countless viewers.
It's better to raise an army for a thousand days than to have it unused for a thousand days!
[Aren't these just like our real-life firefighters and paramedics? May they never have to respond to another call!]
[Let's start by paying tribute to those who went against the tide!]
The young players crave honor, while the veterans only hope for peace.
Just then, a piercing alarm suddenly blared throughout the entire air base.
In the depths of space, an extremely large, irregularly shaped, high-temperature magic stone is falling toward Earth at an incredible speed!
The Stone Chamber Commander immediately issued a Level 3 alert order, and the entire Seagull Team was on standby.
The predicted landing site of the extraterrestrial object is in the Jinghai urban area. It is midnight, and the bustling city is already asleep.
However, the lights were still on in a private company called the "Monster Disaster Fund".
Several employees are working overtime to organize data as they try to raise funds to help victims of the monster disaster, but they are running into obstacles everywhere.
"As expected, there's nothing a grassroots organization like ours can do," one employee complained dejectedly.
"Don't be discouraged. Even if there's only one victim, it's better to help if we can, than to help at all."
Another employee offered encouragement.
No sooner had he finished speaking than an extremely blinding light suddenly burst forth from outside the window!
The high-temperature magic stone that flew in did not smash the building directly as everyone expected. Instead, it hovered and determined its landing point before slamming into the ground of the street!
boom!
An immense burst of heat erupted instantly, and the high temperature melted the surrounding steel and earth at an alarming rate, causing the magic stone to sink continuously.
Inside the airbase, I stared at the data on the screen and blurted out, "The high temperature of the object flying towards the nuclear reactor core has caused it to begin melting!"
This temperature is terrifying; falling into the city would be a disaster.
The strange behavior of the magic stone immediately alerted the commander of the stone chamber.
He ordered Li Muzi to retrieve the underground structural diagram of the site.
On the large screen, the red high-temperature warning was extremely glaring.
"There's a natural gas pipeline directly beneath the incoming object!"
Once the high temperature of the magic stone comes into contact with the natural gas pipeline, the entire city will be engulfed in an extremely terrifying natural gas explosion!
"How long will it take to vent all the natural gas?"
Georgie typed furiously on her keyboard: "It will take at least 80 minutes!"
"There's no time to react! Use liquid nitrogen! Cool the incoming object down temporarily! Don't let it damage the reactor!"
Director Di Cheng immediately issued orders to the Lightning Team, but at the same time gave an extremely stern warning: "After launching the liquid nitrogen bomb, the rapid cooling and rebound will generate destructive hot air around it! Retreat immediately after launch!"
How much liquid nitrogen would be needed to cool an object of this mass?
[Similar to a fire tornado, a large amount of high-temperature gas rises and creates a hurricane, which in turn propels the liquid nitrogen bomb.]
This kind of disaster is truly terrifying!
However, in the ruined building near the point where the magic stone fell.
Those two unfortunate employees of the foundation had just recovered from the initial shockwaves.
It was pitch black all around, with thick smoke billowing out.
"Hey! Damn it! We're doomed, we can't get through on the phone!"
Hirakawa frantically pounded on his phone, "There's no way anyone could have known we were here! How could this happen! Help! We're here! Help! Help!"
Got it, working late into the night means encountering monster disasters!
[The main problem is thermal vibration interference, which is preventing them from receiving any signal!]
The temperature must drop for them to be saved, but a drop in temperature will inevitably harm them.
The trolley problem!
Just then, the extremely sophisticated detection system of the air base detected this very weak cell phone signal!
"Commander! Cell phone signals have been detected in the mission area! This means there are civilians there!" Li Muzi reported loudly.
The operation was immediately halted.
However, due to the severe interference of the signal caused by the thermal vibrations generated by the high temperature of the magic stone, Georgie was unable to accurately locate the survivor's exact position.
The commander of the stone chamber, his face ashen, ordered without the slightest hesitation: "Deploy the Seagull Squadron!"
"The Seagulls are on the move! The Seagulls are on the move!"
Captain Kamiyama, along with Matsuo and Mike, piloted the rescue plane like an arrow rushing towards the disaster area.
Time ticked by, and the magic stone was now very close to the natural gas pipeline.
"There's no time left!"
In the channel, I Dream gave an extremely bold suggestion: "Detonate the liquid nitrogen bomb just before the target is hit! This will minimize the damage from the heat wave in that area!"
The compromise was immediately adopted.
The Lightning team's three-plane formation precisely dropped bombs.
"boom--!"
The extremely cold liquid nitrogen instantly vaporized on the surface of the magic stone.
The temperature of the magic stone was finally forcibly reduced to a level insufficient to melt the strata, and the resulting hot air reaction miraculously did not cause a fatal secondary blow to the survivor building.
However, common sense about physics often takes on extremely bizarre and unpredictable forms when faced with monsters.
Upon examining it in my dream, he was astonished to discover that the weight of this magic stone had increased eighty times!
From 5 tons to 400 million tons!
The drastic temperature change caused the high-density molecules inside the magic stone to completely lose their balance.
The magic stone began to expand wildly, and several thick, red tentacles radiating intense heat pierced through the surrounding buildings!
Unfortunately, one of the red pillars pierced through the floor where the survivor was located with remarkable precision!
The signal interference disappeared after the temperature dropped.
Georgie finally managed to get through to the survivor on the phone.
"I'm inside a crevice in a red pillar that's seeping in..." A weak, labored breathing came from the other end of the phone. "It's so hot here, so very hot..."
"The red pillar...that's that guy's horn!"
Over the communication channel, Captain Kamiyama immediately made a judgment: "If that guy makes a single move, he can destroy the entire building in one fell swoop!"
The rescue operation has officially begun!
Captain Kamiyama and Matsuo, carrying heavy demolition equipment, struggled to move forward through the crumbling ruins of the building.
The interior of the building, which has been hit several times, is a maze-like complex, with exposed steel bars and ceilings that could collapse at any moment.
They finally reached the outside of the room where the survivors were, but a heavily deformed iron door blocked their way.
The two immediately started the plasma cutter, sparks flying everywhere.
"Just bear with it a little longer! How far are you from that red pillar?" Matsuo shouted as he cut, trying to calm the survivor inside the door.
"Hurry up..."
However, before the words were finished, the sound from inside the door suddenly disappeared completely.
"What's wrong with you? Cheer up! You absolutely can't faint!"
Matsuo panicked instantly, and his hands began to tremble as he cut.
In an extremely oppressive, claustrophobic space and under intense heat, once a survivor loses consciousness, they are very likely to never wake up again.
Just as Matsuo was in a panic, Captain Kamiyama, standing nearby, displayed his extremely seasoned rescue experience.
Instead of shouting blindly, he calmly and loudly posed a question:
Do you have family?
There was a two-second silence inside the door, followed by a very faint response: "I have a wife... and a six-year-old son..."
"Keep talking to him!"
Captain Kamiyama continued to steadily cut the iron gate while instructing Matsuo.
Matsuo immediately realized what was happening and, suppressing his inner panic, asked, "What's your son's name?"
"His name is Ashu..."
"You'll definitely be able to take him to see it!"
This is the experience of a veteran!
[Hey, don't make a promise you can't keep!]
Why set a flag? Isn't arousing the survival instinct of trapped people basic rescue work?
Maintaining verbal communication with the trapped person to keep them conscious is the most crucial aspect of the rescue operation.
[Using family ties to forcefully keep the survivors clinging to their last breath!]
Psychological support is sometimes more important than physical demolition! It gives people hope for survival in desperate situations!
Sorry, the curse of setting a flag doesn't exist in the Ultraman universe!
Indeed, Ultraman characters don't make personal promises!
[Captain Shenshan is so calm, he didn't panic at all!]
This is what a professional rescue team looks like!