Ultraman fighting evolution.

Chapter 288 Deviation and Continuing Fate
"squeak--!"

Parking the car in front of an apartment building, Xia Long checked the address and ran into the building immediately.

"Lizi!"

The whole building seemed very empty, and most of the residents were not at home. Occasionally, a few old people who took out the garbage looked curiously at the shouting Xia Long.

"Feel sorry."

After walking down several stairs in a row, Xia Long appeared in front of the house number marked on the note.

"Lizi, are you there?"

The door was not closed, but Xia Long creaked it open with a light push, and suddenly a dull smell came.

Silently entering the living room, Xia Long finally found a studio full of paint.

Red, green and black are intertwined in darkness, and all the pictures have a strange and terrifying atmosphere. Most of them are all kinds of abnormal beasts with perverted appearances, as well as the remains of dead bodies, and the frightened and distorted faces of human beings.

The whole studio outlines an inner world full of fear.

"Are these... all drawn by Li Zi?"

Thinking of the time when he accompanied Lizi to paint in the zoo, Xia Long's expression was complicated.

"What happened?" Xia Long murmured as he looked around at the chaotic paint on the floor, and the broken photo frame that had fallen on the ground under the drawing board.

He found that he knew too little about Lizi, and even if he integrated Gumen's memory, it was only limited to dating and calling again and again.

"We must find Lizi as soon as possible!"

Looking at the weird paintings around again, Xia Long didn't stay long, and immediately turned and walked out of the room.

"V-"

After a while, Xia Long stopped in front of the zoo where Lizi often came. The animals still looked leisurely and lovely, but Lizi was not there.

"Not here either?"

"Didi!" At this moment, Bereg's voice sounded, and an emergency dispatch order appeared on the screen.

"at this time……"

After a pause, Xia Long closed Bereg, turned the steering wheel in reverse, and turned the car towards the base.

Could it be that Lizi was taken away by Gorogi?
Driving on the Panshang Highway, Xia Long's thoughts fluctuated.

There are some things that the more you don't want them to happen, but they will happen. He seems to feel the irresistible trajectory of fate hanging over Gumen.

"Fate can definitely be changed..." Xia Long stepped on the accelerator.

"Om-"

The scenery outside the car window reversed rapidly and began to connect into blurred lines, but Xia Long continued to accelerate.

hurry up!

Pressing his hand on the steering wheel, a blurry picture faintly flashed before Xia Long's eyes.

Alien beasts, Lizi's family, roars, frightened cries...

"Lizi..." Xia Long suppressed the pain and anger that came from deep within his body.

The blurry fragment gave him an unacceptable message that Lizi's family might have been killed by strange beasts as early as half a year ago. If this is true, then...

If Lizi had been killed half a year ago, who would have been with Gumen all this time?

"laugh--!"

After driving through a curve, Xia Long's eyebrows twitched suddenly, followed by an extremely strong sense of threat.

"what?"

Stepping on the brakes reflexively, Xia Long turned the steering wheel again and again, the body trembled slightly and then slammed into the inner guardrail in a long arc.

"Ahem!" After recovering from the violent accident, Xia Long got out of the deformed body and looked back. Beside the scorched black marks caused by the friction of the two tires, the entire road was missing a section, and the heat was rising.

"This is..." Xia Long followed the induction and looked towards the forest, only to see a strange giant put down his arms and looked at him.

Faust!
Taking out the Diwait gun from the car, Xia Long looked at the dark giant solemnly.

The abnormally evil aura, just looking at it from the ground, made him faintly oppressed.

"Human beings," Faust said contemptuously, "stop doing unnecessary resistance, accept the arrangement of fate, submit to me, and you will gain the power of immortality!"

"What a joke!"

Xia Long raised his spear, clicked his aim, and was about to attack, when he suddenly saw a young figure out of the corner of his eye.

"Ji Yazhun?" Xia Long looked carefully, and saw that the young man was holding a glowing dagger-shaped transformation device in his hand, and was looking at Faust solemnly.

"Leave quickly! Faust is the enemy I want to deal with!" Ji Yazhun turned around and said, gritted his teeth and stepped forward to pull out the transformation device, his body was immediately enveloped in light.

"Keng!" As the turbulent brilliance converged, Nexus' silver body appeared in front of Faust, and after blocking Faust's attack, he immediately switched to a red form to expand the Meta Field.

"Hmph, troublemaker!" Faust stopped attacking and calmly watched the Meta domain unfold, "Do you think this can defeat me?"

With a cold snort, Faust smiled evilly and looked at Xia Long who was on the ground.

"The game is on!"

"What?" Xia Long put down his spear and watched closely as the two huge figures were wrapped in a hemispherical golden energy shield.

This is the unfolding meta field, but...

"Wow!"

Under Xia Long's gaze, the golden color suddenly turned to black and red, and the intense crimson light expanded, enveloping him instantly.

"Dark Domain!" After he reacted, he found that he had appeared in the domain, and the fierce battle between the two giants broke out not far from him.

"Bang!" For humans, the aftermath of disasters hit Xia Long from time to time, and Xia Long even felt a little hard to breathe under the explosion of light bombs.

It was Faust who deliberately directed the attack on his side!

Avoiding the impact of an explosion again, Xia Long found that Nexus had stopped attacking because he had noticed him.

"hateful!"

Seeing that Nexus was in trouble, Xia Long immediately switched Diwait to the powerful attack mode, aimed at Faust's leg and shot.

"Leave me alone, beat him first!" Xia Long shot Faust in the leg again, and shouted at Nexus.

"Bang!" With Xia Long's help, Nexus nodded and punched Faust, whose center of gravity was unstable after being hit through the hollow door, flying away, and the situation was immediately reversed.

"You guy..." Faust looked at Xia Long angrily under the pain, and raised his hand to attack, but was stopped by Nexus.

"Scared!" Cooperating with Xia Long, Nexus punched several times fiercely, then kicked away Faust, and directly hit Faust's shoulder with a luminous blade.

"Uh--"

Kankan avoiding the vital point, Faust snorted, covered his shoulders and looked at Xia Long.

"Crack!" Xia Long aimed his gun and was about to continue attacking. Facing Faust's black eyes, Lizi's weak face suddenly appeared in his mind.

"why……"

Pointing the gun at the giant, Xia Long's fingers trembled.

This feeling……

"Hmph ha ha!" After hesitating for a moment, Faust took the opportunity to fight back and wound Nexus, and restrained Nexus from behind.

"Lizi..." Looking at the dark giant who was grinning, Xia Long's voice trembled, "Are you Lizi?"

It's true that Lizi is dead...the one who has been with Gumen...is it actually Faust?

Tightening the spear in his hand, Xia Long re-aimed at Faust after seeing the red light on Nexus' chest began to sound.

"Lizi?"

After a pause, Faust looked at Xia Long in a daze.

"Am I Lizi?"

Faust made a sound in confusion, his black eyes were motionless looking at Xia Long who was pointing his gun at him on the ground.

"Crack!" Suppressing the pain in his heart, Xia Long aimed at the giant tightly, his fingers paused in front of the attack button.

The atmosphere was stalemate for a while, and the moment Xia Long decided to shoot, Faust suddenly let go of Nexus, and rushed towards Xia Long.

"Bang!" In a hurry, Xia Long dodges and rolls to avoid it. When he raised his gun to fight back, he found the giant's body lying above his head, shaking violently with a muffled sound.

"What's going on?" Xia Long let go of the spear, looked over Faust's body, and saw a strange beast appearing in the domain at some point.

"Beep! Beep——" amidst the continuous flashing red lights, Faust looked at Xia Long in pain.

"Could it be..." Xia Long's expression changed, he put down his Diwait gun and looked at the giant closely.

"Mr. Gumen..." Lizi whispered weakly, "I'm sorry..."

"Lizi!"

Xia Long took a step forward, and watched helplessly as the alien beast pushed the giant away and pulled out its ferocious claws, followed by a stream of light spraying from Faust's back like blood.

"Lizi!" Feeling the sharp drop of Faust's breath, Xia Long gritted his teeth and looked at the giant alien beast that continued to attack him.

The mutated mouse-like form was the same as the small alien beast he saw that killed Lizi's family, and it was an enlarged version.

"Alien beast!" Lifting Diwaite, Xia Long aimed at the alien beast with a sullen face and pressed the shooting button.

"boom--!"

……

TLT Fort Liberty base.

"Failed?"

In the command room of the Information Operations Center, Yu Kirazawa stared at the screen.

A screen in the middle displays all the information of Kodo Kazuki.

"Some things are destined," the boy seemed to be talking to himself. "Even though your existence is miraculous, you still can't stop it from happening... Do you want to continue? This world may usher in darkness earlier because of you."

With his hands crossed and his chin propped, the boy narrowed his eyes: "The future I see is chaos."

……

Beside the Panshan Highway, Xia Long silently hugged Lizi, who was covered in blood, and put him gently on the ground.

The alien beast has been killed by Nexus, but...

"I still have a lot of things I want to say to Gumen... I don't regret meeting Gumen..."

Lizi's eyes were filled with tears, but the same gentle smile appeared on her face again.

"A lonely door that works hard to protect others."

"Lizi..." Xia Long pressed tightly on his chest, in great pain, an unprecedented pain, surpassing all the pains he had suffered in previous battles.

Desperate grief from the bottom of Gumen's heart.

"Actually... I found out a long time ago," Lizi whispered with tears, "You are not alone..."

"Please, don't let Mr. Gumen get hurt," Lizi slowly stretched out her hand to Xia Long's cheek, and said weakly, "Is it okay?"

"Gumen will be fine, and Lizi will be fine, because," Xia Long squeezed Lizi's hand while holding back tears, and said with a smile, "Where I come from, everyone believes in miracles... as long as you believe, you will be fine." has hope."

Gritting his teeth, Xia Long tried to mobilize energy.

"Keng!" The phantom of the evolution instrument condensed with a little brilliance, trembling constantly, as if it would collapse at any time, it seemed very useless.

But this light is the only hope for him and Lizi.

"Not recovered yet, but should be enough."

Xia Long carefully extended the phantom above Lizi, and a faint brilliance spread across Lizi's body.

Must succeed!

"Phew~" Xia Long let the sweat flow from the corners of his eyes, remained motionless, and waited nervously for Guanghua to completely cover Lizi, until he brought Lizi back into the phantom of the evolution instrument as a stream of light, and he was slightly relieved.

"Wow—" As the halo flashed, the evolution instrument disappeared on Xia Long's arm again.

After entering the system space, Lizi will temporarily fall into a deep sleep, but she still needs to find a way to save Lizi...

Standing up, Xia Long silently looked at the blood left on the leaves on the ground.

"Gumen..." Ji Yazhun endured the pain and walked to Xia Long's side with difficulty.

"Mr. Ji Ya," Xia Long recovered, and turned to face the young man, "Can you tell me? What is this light you got? That ruin...why did such a dream appear?"

Ji Yazhun took out the short gun from his arms, panted and shook his head: "I also want to know your question, why I got this power, and what I fought for, I don't know very well, but..."

After summoning the sarcophagus, Ji Yazhun continued: "When I was saving you, I seemed to feel the meaning of this light... Gumen, the past cannot be changed, but perhaps the future can be changed."

"Wow!" After a while, Ji Yazhun was taken away by the sarcophagus in the light, leaving only Xia Long in the woods.

After staying for a while, Xia Long let out a breath and walked towards the road.

After opening Bereg, Xia Long contacted He Cang: "Captain, I'm lonely..."

……

A few days later, Xia Long walked in the zoo in casual clothes.

Because of Lizi, even though he didn't show any abnormalities, He Cang deliberately let him rest for a few days considering his state.

According to He Cang, Xia Long's calmness made people worry.

Regarding Hecang's misunderstanding, Xia Long didn't say much, because the existence of the system space is unknown to people in this world, and even the hidden darkness probably would not have thought that he might save Lizi.

"Portrait of the family..."

Looking at the parents and children coming and going in the park, and the family of animals looking relaxed in the enclosure, Xia Long thought of Lizi's college graduation creation again.

Camels, giraffes, lions, elephants and monkeys are mostly Lizi's creation models, and Lizi has drawn the beautiful scenes of these animals.

In memory, Lizi even said that she wanted to draw the lonely door.

"It will come true, sooner or later there will be such a day."

Sitting on the bench where Lizi often paints, Xia Long took out the amulet that Lizi made herself and nodded slightly.

He could feel that the fate line belonging to Gumen had begun to shift slightly, but this was only the beginning.

"Maybe I came to this world just for the lonely family." Looking at the lovely handmade pendant in his hand, a thought popped into Xia Long's mind.

"Riko!" At this moment, a voice suddenly came from beside my ear.

"Riko, wait a minute!"

Xia Long regained his senses and looked up, only to see a little girl with a light-colored hat and two braids running here alive and kicking.

"I'm the first!"

"Don't worry, the animals won't run away, Riko."

"Because I want to see all the animals, and I will be too late if I take a long time."

It is a family of four, parents, and a brother and sister.

Xia Long smiled and looked at the family happily standing in front of the fence for a group photo.

"Well, I'm sorry," the man asked after noticing Xia Long, "Can you take a group photo for us?"

"Well, okay." Nodding, Xia Long took the camera to help the family take pictures, "Stand still, laugh, eggplant..."

When was the last time I took a photo for someone? It seemed to be when Mebius World first arrived in Kobe.

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome." After taking the picture, Xia Long returned the camera to the man.

Watching the family happily rushing to the next location, Xia Long couldn't help feeling a little envious.

"Family."

Gumen also has family members, but he has not contacted him, nor has he returned to his hometown to visit.

After picking up the phone and digging out the address book, Xia Long was hesitating whether to call or not, when his eyelids suddenly throbbed violently.

"Yo, it doesn't look sad at all."

A voice came from behind, Xia Long frowned and looked back, only to find that it was a stern young man in black.

"Gumen Kakki," the young man walked to the bench, with the corner of his mouth raised, "I am Shinya Mizoroki, your enemy."

(End of this chapter)