Chapter 355 Heroes in Hope
"Haha, come and chase me, brother!"

The cheerful, innocent laughter echoed through a field of flowers that stretched as far as the eye could see.

A gentle breeze carries the fragrance of flowers, and a few bees and butterflies flutter about, while the warm sunlight shines on the flowers.

"Hehe, I'm not going to catch you. I'm going to eat your snacks. You can hide by yourself." A little boy's figure ran through the flower bushes.

"Ah! Brother, you're a bad guy! Don't eat my snacks!" Attracted by his brother's words, a little guy hiding in the flower bushes quickly emerged and ran along the path between the flowers to the place where the family was having a picnic.

"Huh? Where did my brother go?" The little girl, still drooling, couldn't find her brother anywhere.

"Wow! I caught you!" Suddenly, the little boy appeared from behind and hugged the girl tightly.

"Wow, brother, you're cheating! This doesn't count!"

"Hey, that's not cheating, that's cunning. You still have a lot to learn."

"Alright, alright, brother, hurry up and bring your sister over, it's lunchtime."

In the middle of the flower bushes, a young couple watched their children playing with smiles, opened the basket containing their lunch, and called them back with a smile.

A gentle breeze, warm sunshine, flowers, green grass, and butterflies... In this dreamlike, fairytale-like place, the family thoroughly enjoyed a leisurely day off, basking in peace and happiness.
After leisurely playing among the flowers for a long time, the family held hands and walked towards the city, bathed in the beautiful sunset.

Along the way, there were many people with handsome or beautiful faces, creating their art with great enthusiasm.

There is painting, sculpture, and music.

The family strolled back to the city in the sunset.

"Xiao Qi, prepare dinner for us," the male homeowner called out casually.

(Welcome back, Master. What kind of food would you like?) A small, round, intelligent robot flew over and asked.

"Hmm..." The handsome male host frowned as he pondered, "What should we eat? The usual, or should we try something new?"

"Darling, why don't I do it today!" Suddenly, the lady of the house seemed to have suddenly become interested. She grabbed the spherical robot and excitedly shouted, "Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi, give me the recipe and ingredients. I'm going to show off my skills today!"

"Okay, okay, Mom will cook for us!" the two children shouted happily.

However, cold sweat began to bead on the male homeowner's forehead. He muttered under his breath, "If there's a recipe, it shouldn't be too outrageous..."

……

With advanced technology, a beautiful environment, and residents of high moral character and rich knowledge, they live a leisurely life, enjoying the beautiful life that has continued since they were born.

They can freely pursue their dreams; they can study painting, mathematics, dance, sculpture...

Thousands of meters above the filthy, ruined land below, float like dreamlike floating cities.

"Eden" is their pseudonym, representing 10 cities from 1 to 10, suspended in the stratosphere, isolated from all the filth and disasters below.

From Eden I to Eden X, all are enveloped by a massive, special energy shield, completely isolating the despair and filth of the world below.

Inside the city, the temperature remains consistently comfortable, and the air is filled with the faint scent of artificial flowers.

The streets were spotless, lined with meticulously manicured greenery and loudspeakers playing soothing music.

Sunlight filters through the protective shield, turning into a soft, warm gold that evenly bathes each of the beautifully designed and brightly colored buildings.

People live here, dressed in clean and presentable clothes, with a peaceful and gentle smile on their faces, as if they were untouched by the world and had been carefully nurtured.

They chatted in open-air cafes, strolled in parks, and admired the beautiful or majestic works of art in galleries.

Their advanced technology means they don't need to do any manual labor; they only need to supervise some intelligent robots and perform a very small amount of artistic creation.

In Eden, there are seven days a week, three of which are working days with six hours of work each day, while the other four days are rest days.

However, perhaps it is the good life that satisfies people's spirits that makes them, even though they can almost say that every day is a day off, very few of them would let themselves be idle all the time.

They communicated and created freely, like a beautiful paradise in a myth.

Their education taught them that the world had experienced a catastrophe, and that they were fortunate to be chosen by "gods" to continue human civilization and elegance in this last sanctuary.

They firmly believed in this and felt immense gratitude and respect for the "god" who bestowed all of this upon them—Ultraman Tiga.

At the center of each of the ten Edens stands a colossal statue of Ultraman Tiga, hundreds of meters tall, receiving the worship and respect of a total of two million people from these ten Edens.

The residents here, especially young women and young children, are taken exceptionally well.

They have all undergone rigorous genetic selection, and they are not only beautiful, but also deliberately cultivated to have a temperament like that of "noble girls of the old era"—innocent, docile, with a touch of artistic naiveté and good upbringing.

These 10 Eden cities existed peacefully and beautifully for many years.

These are the gardens and harems that Li Yang, the Lord of the Defiled Light, prepared for himself.

At the same time, it is also an export product cultivation base!
In Eden 7, this day was as peaceful and beautiful as any other day.

until……

"Brother, get up and play with me, get up..." The morning sunlight shone through the window, and the little girl ran into her brother's room with her doll, wanting her still-sleepy brother to get up quickly so they could play house together.

"Xiao Guang, I want to sleep a little longer. Go play with the older sister next door..." The sleepy older brother covered himself tightly with the blanket, and no matter how hard his younger sister tried to pull him away, she couldn't move him.

"Brother!" The little sister was a bit angry, her face turned red, and she tried hard to pull her brother down.

Available in the next moment!
*Swoosh—Bang!*

A piercingly loud bang, almost tearing eardrums, nearly made the dazed older brother jump off the bed.

"Waaaah!" The little girl burst into tears on the spot, and her brother quickly comforted her, "Brother's here, brother's here, don't cry, don't cry."

The two children huddled together in a corner, their eyes filled with terror.

"Hikaru, Shimi, come with us to the shelter!" Before long, the two children's parents rushed into the room, picked up their children, and ran in terror toward the city's shelter.

On his father's back, the older brother's pupils trembled as he looked up at the sky, at the terrible disaster that suddenly appeared there.

Above the city, the protective shield that was originally invisible was forcibly torn open with a huge gap, just like fragile glass!

The violent airflow brought by the low pressure inside and outside the building erupted instantly, lifting parasols, tables and chairs, and some pedestrians from the street into the air, where they were either ejected from the huge crack or crashed heavily to the ground, turning into a gruesome mess.

The little boy saw a huge, menacing, disc-shaped aircraft, utterly out of place in the city, slowly descending through the gap like a vulture discovering carrion, casting a suffocating shadow.

"What...what happened?"

Many residents on the streets looked up blankly, their calm expressions replaced by astonishment, but not yet by fear.

In their understanding, the so-called "invasion" was something recorded in ancient history and had long since disappeared from this land of Eden. They would not have known about it if they had not been extremely interested in investigating it.

The bottom of the saucer-shaped warship opened, and hundreds of Lebik aliens, resembling humanoid crows, walked out leisurely, chatting and laughing, carrying guns on their shoulders.

A short, seemingly young Lebik alien chatted and joked with his companions, then casually adjusted a few buttons on his gun before firing a shot into the distance.

"Ahhh! Help!"

"Oh my god! Why is the house shrinking? Help..."

"Mommy, save me... Ah—"

A seemingly ordinary beam of light shot out, and a building not far away began to shrink as if it had come to life.

The most terrifying thing is that while the building itself is shrinking, the hundreds of families living inside are not shrinking along with it, but are instead being squeezed to an enormous degree.

Only a few families living on the first and second floors desperately tried to escape before the building shrank completely, while the others, amidst a frantic scream, were firmly bound and unable to move by the ever-shrinking building, their bodies crushed and high-pressure blood spurting out from the gaps.

Upon witnessing this scene, a Lebik alien who seemed to be the leader was filled with rage and shouted in a piercing cosmic language: "You brat! These are good slaves who could be sold for a high price, and you just let them die like that?"

"Hehe," the young Lebik alien pointed at the frantically fleeing crowd in the distance and laughed loudly, "Father, aren't there still so many left? What's the big deal if we just kill a few of them?"

One of the accompanying Lebik aliens chimed in, "Yeah, yeah, Captain. Anyway, we always have to kill some of these lowly slaves to make an example of them. Letting the kids play around isn't a big deal."

The massacre and humiliation began.

Paralyzing beams and shrinking beams shot towards the crowd like cold raindrops.

Born into privilege and deliberately raised without any sense of crisis, people collapsed in droves, their bodies convulsing, conscious but unable to move, forced to watch helplessly as those ugly alien creatures approached.

"Tsk, this skin has a nice texture, it would be good for making clothes."

A Lebik alien examined the blood-soaked skin in his hand, a satisfied smile spreading across his face.

"Hahaha, look at this! This idiot was just trying to ambush me. He's so adventurous. I think he could be sold to the arena." Another Lebik alien casually beckoned to a man's personal AI robot, looked at the AI ​​robot's evaluation of the man's personality, and smiled approvingly.

The energy net enveloped the beautiful boys and girls, dragging them up like butterflies after shrinking them, and roughly throwing them into the floating platform boxes waiting beside them.

Resistance is futile; cries and pleas for help will only invite the Lebik aliens' joyful and excited beatings and tortures.

The once beautiful streets instantly transformed from paradise into hell on earth.

Exquisite coffee cups were shattered, elegant dresses were trampled, and blood and tears stained the pristine ground.

Those delicate flowers, carefully cultivated in vases, became supermarket commodities to be picked at will in the face of absolute violence and malice. This "harvest" lasted for a full hour.

The Lebik aliens who came to buy goods this time were mostly newcomers. After satisfying themselves with a brutal killing spree, they returned to their spaceship, exhausted from their fun.

The power of the shrinking light was readjusted, and the buildings, along with the people inside, were shrunk down, like stocking up on goods in a supermarket, storing these artistic buildings in a warehouse.

Then, satisfied, they took off with their "cargo" and disappeared beyond the breach in the shield, leaving behind only a devastated, barren wasteland.

Then, the will of the "gods" descended.

In this completely destroyed floating city, countless small repair robots swarm out from underground like worker ants.

They began transporting stored materials and, using 3D printing, rebuilt the devastated city with terrifying efficiency.

At the same time, the repair process of the city's protective shield was initiated, and automated robots swarmed toward the breach like bees, repairing it to its original state at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Next came the replenishment of the population.

The surface of the floating city cracked open, and countless artificial womb incubation chambers inside the storage room poured out, expelling hundreds of thousands of children who had undergone memory manipulation.

As the children awoke, everything seemed to return to normal.

"why why!"

Seeing all this, a man who had survived capture by the Lebik aliens, crawling up from a crevice in the ruins, screamed in terror.

Why must we encounter such terrible things!

He looked at the rapidly restored city, at the towering Ultraman Tiga statue in the city center, and roared in a state of emotional collapse.

But then, including him, thousands of people who had not been directly captured because they had hidden in the gaps in the city's shattered ruins were immediately captured by the intelligent robots.

Struggling frantically, or asking the robots questions they couldn't get any answers to, they were herded into the transport plane like livestock.

As the transport plane started up, and filled with their doubts, they were dropped onto the ground.

It was abandoned on that desolate wasteland filled with all sorts of dangers.

They were met by the rebels.

The exhausted and numb rebels told these people, who had been deprived of their happy lives, everything they knew.

A sorrowful roar of utter devastation echoed across the land: "Could this place... Gods... Ultraman Tiga! Eden 7... is it just a breeding farm?!"

……

At Eden No. 7 Middle School, the sun is still warm, the streets are still spotless, and the music is still soothing.

The new generation of residents, fresh from being expelled from the artificial womb, looked at the intact city, touched their clean new clothes, and their fabricated memories allowed them to integrate into the city without any hindrance.

In a few years, these children will grow up, fall in love, get married, and a new generation of children will be born.

As time goes by, the discordant parts of their woven memories will gradually fade, and new memories, new and beautiful memories of life, will gradually fill them, making them happy and joyful.

They will soon return to their docile, peaceful, and elegant demeanor.

Each product comes with a personal robot that will meticulously record their entire life.

Their joy, sorrow, worry, and emotions... all of these will be carefully recorded by the personal robots that are bound to each of them, meticulously recording this product information as anti-counterfeiting marks for future sales.

They would live a happy and leisurely life for a long, long time, unlike their kind on the ground who struggled to survive and fought desperately, enjoying this "happy and wonderful life".

Waiting for the next "purchase" process from the Interstellar Alliance (Interstellar Slave Trading Company).

And what is Li Yang, the "Lord of the Defiled Light," doing, sitting in his cloud palace?
Having just finished a brutal killing to calm himself down, he casually glanced at the Eden 7 that had returned to normal on the monitoring screen, and then looked at the few spaceships that were hovering outside Earth.

He waved the card in his hand, looking at the Interstellar Alliance currency that had just been deposited into his account. His bad mood from earlier finally faded, and a satisfied, despicable smile appeared on his lips.

He raised his glass and clinked it against that of an alien in front of him.

The alien, resembling an ape from Earth with a bloated and obese physique—the Mefilas alien—chuckled softly and said, "Mr. Li Yang, the quality of this batch of human slaves is quite good. I look forward to our next cooperation."

"Being able to conduct human transactions with an evil Ultraman is truly a delightful experience, and this experience alone is enough to increase the value of these slaves."

"Not at all," Li Yang said with a smile, his face full of refinement and humility, "I have long heard of the great reputation of the Mefilas aliens."

"I never expected that you would be involved in the interstellar alliance of this universe. I look forward to deeper cooperation between us in the future."

Soon, Li Yang watched with satisfaction as the spaceships left Earth, embarking on a space jump and disappearing into the distance. His eyes gleamed: "I never expected that the Mefilas aliens would appear in this universe. From now on, I'll probably have to be careful of those hypocritical guys from the Land of Light."

"But with so many universes and such a vast multiverse, those hypocritical beings from the Land of Light shouldn't be able to discover me so quickly, right?"

"However, these hypocritical guys are all idiots. Even if they find out about me so quickly, they can just clear their names and that's it. It's just that after clearing their names, it will be more troublesome to accumulate strength."

Li Yang opened the system, looked at his energy index as Ultraman Tiga, and suddenly laughed: "It'll be soon. Before long, the accumulated light and negative emotions will be enough to keep me in a shining or dark state for a long time."

"Then, even the Land of Light!" His lips parted, revealing gleaming white teeth, his face filled with greed: "Hundreds of billions of Ultramen, if I could eat them all someday..."

He seemed to be thinking of something, and a dark look returned to his face as he gritted his teeth. "When the time comes, those damned aliens, those damned monsters, I'll crush them all with ease!"

"Hehehehehahaha..."

The maniacal laughter echoed through the palace for a long time.

……

In the universe, after a short space jump, while searching for a wormhole node for a long space jump, several spaceships carrying slaves quietly sped through the stars.

"Brother... Xiaoguang is so scared, where did Mom and Dad go?" In the cargo hold of the spaceship, in the shrunken city, a girl clung tightly to her brother's arm, murmuring blankly.

The young child didn't know what had happened; all she knew was that her parents were gone.

The slightly older children, however, suppressed their grief. Having witnessed their parents being stoned to death, they were filled with despair. Yet, looking at their younger sister beside them, they still managed to hold back their urge to cry, simply gripping the hand of their only remaining family member tightly.

His bewildered gaze swept across the brightly lit warehouse, where the enormous, boundless walls locked the shattered city in place, like an ecosphere.

Every now and then, he could see huge, terrifying eyes emerge from behind the warehouse walls, looking down with satisfaction at the terrified people in the shattered city.

"Tiga!" Suddenly, a child shouted, attracting the attention of many people.

The children looked at the Tiga statue in the center of the city, which had also shrunk in size due to the shrinking light.

In their education, the earth was a filthy ruin, and a god named Tiga saved them and led them to the Garden of Eden.

Amidst this terror, a child cried out innocently, "Tiga, save us, save us!"

"Hmph!" But an adult not far away was trembling with anger.

As an intelligent person, I have noticed some unusual information in my studies and in history, and now, some of the doubts have become clear.

He roared in a fit of rage, "Tiga is a demon! He's the bastard who kept us locked up in cages and raised us like this!"

"He's the devil who turned us into commodities and sold us to aliens!"

"I do not believe!"

"you are lying!"

"Tiga will definitely save us!"

Many adults, upon hearing his words, had some idea of ​​what was going on, but the children refused to accept it.

They gazed innocently at the giant Tiga statue in the center of the city, praying incessantly, hoping that Ultraman Tiga would save them.

And so, gradually...

Gradually……

The light that had recently fallen like rain upon our hearts began to emanate from these children.

Points of light began to surge toward the statue in the center of the city.

"just!"

A tremendous battle cry echoed throughout the city.

The statue, which should have been just an inanimate object, actually started to move!
With the children's prayers answered and the damned bastard no longer stealing or taking over, the light began to shine as it should have in the children's hearts.

"What? What's that thing that crawled out of the warehouse?"

"Ahhh!"

The spaceship carrying slaves exploded in space, and all the people were contained within the living statues.

It wasn't that damned Lord of the Defiled Light, but simply their hero who saved them!

(End of this chapter)

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