The legend of Tiga

Chapter 2280 Anti-Gravity?
"This"

"Uh"

Even the Super Victory Team, who have seen their share of ups and downs, were at a loss in the face of this scene. It was simply beyond their comprehension. They couldn't understand it using common sense, let alone guess it with their knowledge.

Just like how ancient people saw lightning falling from the sky and, unable to explain what it was, could only imagine it as a divine manifestation.

"Let's go take a look on the first floor."

Kibi Gosuke was the first to react, but his first thought was to go downstairs and take a look.

"Yes!" Toshiyuki Koda and Kohei Kariya immediately turned around and ran downstairs. A few seconds later, their voices came through the communicator: "Captain, the chair is still on the ceiling."

Not only did it confirm the voice, but it also captured an image of the chair firmly attached to the ceiling using a camera built into the helmet. Through a data link, people on the second floor could also clearly see from their perspective that the very ordinary chair was sitting still on the very ordinary ceiling.

Kariya Yukihira somehow got hold of several small boxes and threw them up one by one. Without exception, they all stopped near the ceiling, allowing him to calculate that the strange gravitational distance was fifteen centimeters.

Well.
Looking at each other!

Especially Tsutomu Nakajima, who has the highest scientific literacy, found it utterly unbelievable.

It's just a floor away, how did it become like this?

Yumimura Ryo then looked up at the ceiling on the second floor and asked, "Is it like this here too?"

As Yumimura Ryo spoke, she pulled out a hair tie and threw it upwards forcefully.

Upon hearing this, the others also looked up, and then...
Under everyone's watchful eyes, the hair tie floated gently upwards, upwards, until it finally came to rest.

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"It's available here too."

Tsutomu Nakajima was contemplating whether to break open the floor to see if there was anything inside when he looked up and saw this, which made him feel like his worldview had collapsed.

When did antigravity become so 'common'?

Regardless of the civilization or universe, anti-gravity systems are absolute cutting-edge technology. The reason is simple: gravity is one of the four fundamental forces and is a very common phenomenon.

Conversely, if you master the anti-gravity system, it's equivalent to mastering gravity.

It's important to understand that humanity only grasped the basics of electromagnetism, yet it used electricity to build a magnificent electrical civilization and used magnetism to create various engines that drive humanity forward.

If electromagnetism enabled humanity's rapid development on Earth, then mastering gravity will allow humanity to take giant strides beyond its home planet.

In the past, humans used rockets to explore space, which was extremely expensive. It cost tens of thousands of dollars to take one kilogram of cargo to outer space, and the cost to bring it back to Earth would double. This means that it would cost tens of millions of dollars for one person to make a round trip to space.

As for going to the moon or Mars, the cost is even higher. Take NASA for example. Without considering the factors of Commissioner Smith, it would cost nearly 100 million US dollars to bring back one gram of Martian soil to Earth. The same amount of money could buy a ton of gold.

Such exorbitant costs are prohibitive even for billionaires. They might be able to put on a PowerPoint presentation, but without massive government subsidies, no one would be willing to engage in such a losing proposition.

Later, the use of high-purity energy and the application of new technologies reduced the cost of rocket transportation by a hundredfold, making it as cheap as silver, which enabled large-scale construction on the moon and the establishment of the Caro base.

In recent years, thanks to the application of the new Max propulsion system, the cost of space transportation has been further reduced, to a price that is almost as low as beef, if not dirt cheap.

But once we master gravity and create an anti-gravity system, we won't even need spaceships anymore. We could just put some glue in the gaps of a car and drive it to the moon.

The transportation cost is much lower than that of a space elevator, making it worthless.

Take Ultraman for example. Why can he fly by simply stretching out his arms? Why can't he, with a weight of tens of thousands of tons, stomp through the soil to the rock layer?

It is because of the anti-gravity buoyancy that the gravity is offset, preventing them from being completely pressed to the ground.

TPC technology is advanced, but its understanding of antigravity is only superficial. It is still far from mastering gravity. At least, Tsutomu Nakajima has never heard of any laboratory that has made an antigravity system small enough to be buried in the floor.

The most advanced anti-gravity systems currently available are only sized enough to be carried by behemoths like the Kurak Call, and cannot be fitted into an aircraft the size of the Victory Eagle.

The question is, who would be so bored as to put an anti-gravity device in the floor between two floors?
Moreover, it's not even one floor.

pedal!pedal!pedal!
I started climbing the stairs, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth floors. Without exception, the items I threw at the ceiling all hovered about 15 centimeters away.

Not only in the corridors, but also on the ceilings of the rooms and even the stairs in the stairwell, things won't fall down if you throw them. It's as if all the downward-facing surfaces of this building have been given 'anti-gravity' properties.

this.
what's the situation?
The group of six people braved the hardships and fatigue to walk around the building, but the result was unexpectedly bad.

Antigravity cannot appear out of thin air; there must be a reason. Moreover, considering that this place was covered with vines before, it was definitely not a good sign.

While they were searching around, the people from headquarters finally arrived at the scene.

The first to be deployed is the TPC2 transport aircraft, which is equipped on a large scale by TPC. It can not only take off and land vertically, but also has very low requirements for airports. Its maximum takeoff weight can reach tens of thousands of tons, making it perfect for transporting large numbers of people and equipment.

rub! rub! rub!
Dozens of people came out one after another, carrying, hugging, carrying, or lifting a large number of instruments and equipment.

An empty-handed man, presumably the team leader, jogged up to Chiba Makoto and Kibi Takesuke, saluted, and loudly introduced his team: "Second Flight Squadron, Transportation Department, first batch of ten sorties, transporting personnel and equipment for disinfection, detection, and reconnaissance."
The extermination is targeted at monsters. After each monster is destroyed, a thorough extermination is carried out, along with a long-term debris collection process. After all, the impact of the explosion will send debris flying to a great distance. In addition, after the battle, the ground is full of craters and a mess, making the search as difficult as archaeology. Therefore, each time it takes at least ten days to half a month.

Originally, the first batch should have been search and disinfection personnel, but this time it was different; a group of researchers were brought along because of the unusual phenomena in this building.

Gravity reversal, dual gravity, and even suspected four-dimensional phenomena are all piquing the interest of researchers. Upon hearing about them, they come over eagerly.

Horii was the first to step forward. Despite being chubby and not young, he ran to the front of the group and, panting, said, "Chiba, have you found the source of the cosmic bacteria Dali?"

“It’s just a possibility,” Chiba Makoto said, helping Horii catch his breath. “We still need to trace the source, but it might be able to wake up people infected with cosmic bacteria.”

"How to do?"

Horii tried to calm himself down, but his inner anxiety wouldn't listen to him.

Concern leads to confusion, and this is evident in Horii at this moment. The person lying in bed is his closest family member, the person he loves most and who loves him most. How could he not be confused by such concern?
"On the surface, the cosmic bacteria Dali feeds on human hemoglobin, but based on what we have seen and heard here, that is probably just the surface. In reality, it obtains energy and genes through hemoglobin."

Next, Chiba Makoto recounted what he had seen and heard. For unknown reasons, the cosmic bacteria Dali parasitized the Monera Seed hiding in this research institute, sucking the Monera Seed into an empty shell. The Monera vines that were originally growing wildly in the dimensional rifts also became rotten branches and leaves, making the Monera aliens' plan a complete failure and giving others a free ride.

The cosmic bacteria Dali, which should definitely be classified as an animal, parasitized Monera seeds and almost gnawed them into empty shells. Not only did it expand countless times in size, transforming into the cosmic behemoth Dali, but it also grew Monera vines on its body.

Furthermore, if the cosmic bacteria Dali were given more time to digest its harvest, more Monera features would surely appear on the cosmic behemoth Dali, and the Monera vines would not be used merely as tentacles as before, but would inevitably integrate better with the cosmic behemoth Dali, thus performing even better.

The reason for this judgment is that Dali's use of Monella's vines was still at the level of a whip, that is, using them as weapons, rather than using them with the dexterity of an limb.

It's like when something is thrown at you; often, before your brain can even react, your arm has already risen and caught it. This is muscle memory, a subconscious reaction.

The cosmic behemoth Dali's mastery of the Monera vines was far from reaching that level, which means that these vines hadn't been growing for long, or at least hadn't been used much, otherwise he wouldn't be so unfamiliar with them.

It was precisely because of his lack of proficiency, and his inability to react at the level of 'subconscious muscle memory', that Chiba Makoto found an opening and, through a sneak attack, delivered a fatal blow to the cosmic behemoth Dali with the Lampard Light Bullet - Lightning Strike.

Therefore, the fact that the cosmic bacterium Dali could transform into the cosmic behemoth Dali clearly indicates that it had 'grafted' Monera's genes onto itself, which allowed it to grow Monera's vines and acquire some of Monera's functions.

Its body has swelled to this size because it has absorbed the 'nutrients' from the Monera seed, that is, the energy that allows the Monera seed to grow into Queen Monera.

After all, the difference between a few millimeters and tens of meters, from grams to tens of thousands of tons, is an enormous chasm. One can only admire the appetite and digestive capacity of the cosmic bacteria Dali.

We used to say that greed is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant, but now we realize that a snake trying to swallow an elephant is nothing compared to the cosmic bacteria Dali, which eats a millimeter into tens of meters – that's a real appetite!

A good appetite leads to better digestion.

It hasn't been long at all. Less than two months have passed since Dr. Kisaragi fell into a coma, and it has already grown into a behemoth tens of meters tall.

After listening to Chiba Makoto's rambling explanation, Horii nodded thoughtfully, feeling as if he had grasped a general idea. He then summarized, "So, the reason why the one infected with the cosmic bacteria Dali has been unable to awaken is because of a problem with his genes? Or is it because his life energy has been drained?"

Horii hesitated for a moment when he got to the end of the sentence.

It's no exaggeration to say that genes are a universally acknowledged thing; anyone who has received nine years of compulsory education knows Mendel and his peas, which has become a consensus.

But life energy
This term sounds mysterious and sophisticated, but in reality, it is the soul of a subject that has been debated in academia for a long time.

Throughout history, many philosophers have expressed their views on the soul, but these are merely written descriptions, and it would not be an exaggeration to call them fantasies. They are more likely to use the soul as a vehicle to express their opinions.

Before 2008, the scientific community had been debating the existence of the soul. The reason why the debate stopped in 2008 was because after the Gipux 3 incident, three stars appeared in the sky, stars that could only be seen from Earth and could not be detected by any detector.

There was an attempt to manually pilot a flying machine towards the stars, but as it flew, the stars suddenly disappeared from view, while people on the ground could still clearly see the three stars arranged in a triangle.

The appearance of the Lightning Man and Gazort, along with the inexplicable appearance of Takuma Aoki, who should have perished in the plane crash, brought the debate about the existence of the human soul to a conclusion and gave this special plasma a mysterious name—life energy.

Although we've taken a step from 0 to 1, there's still a gap of 9,999 between 1 and 10000.

Humanity's current understanding of the soul is as follows: we have confirmed the existence of the human soul, but just like Mendel's peas, Mendel used a simple and crude method to prove the existence of genes, but it was not until decades later that the scientific community accepted this theory, and it was not until a hundred years later that experiments confirmed that the chemical nature of genes is DNA, and it was not until one hundred and fifty years later that humans 'saw' genes.

The same is true now. The scientific community has confirmed the existence of the soul, but our understanding of it is still very, very shallow. Let alone a deep understanding, we haven't even drawn the outline of the soul yet.

So while gene loss is extremely troublesome, if the soul is afflicted, it is a million times more troublesome than gene loss.

Just like the Shu Road is difficult, but it's still not as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Therefore, it was rumored that there might be a problem with the genes or the soul. Horii's chubby face was so wrinkled that it looked like a walnut shell.

The former is troublesome, the latter is even more troublesome.

If it is indeed one of these two reasons, or even both, then...
Even if you don't want to admit it, things will be very troublesome, extremely troublesome, and possibly even...
Entrusting it to the future.

In other words, it cannot be resolved at present.

Thinking of this, Horii felt suffocated and took several deep breaths to suppress the sudden surge of despair.

(End of this chapter)