boyutpedia Chapter 368 Ten Thousand Years of Longing, Tears Shed by Fossils!
Chapter 368 Ten Thousand Years of Longing, Tears Shed by Fossils!
The night is like water.
A huge full moon hung in the sky above the city, its cool light shining on the somewhat messy tunnel construction site in the H-4 area.
The members of the youth elite team, having suffered consecutive setbacks during the day, had all returned to their makeshift tents to rest.
Only Haru Musashi, alone with a flashlight, stepped into the dark tunnel once more.
The beam of the flashlight shone on Mudong's mountain-like body. The ancient behemoth remained in its original posture, its eyes tightly closed, motionless.
"I'm telling you..." Musashi slowed his pace, walked up to Mudon's enormous head, and murmured softly, "Why have you been staying here without moving? Is there a reason?"
The only sound in the tunnel was the monster's heavy, even breathing.
Musashi leaned against a rock, looking at Mudon's massive body, a hint of pity flashing in his eyes: "Don't you feel lonely being here all alone?"
A person?
A flash of lightning suddenly struck Musashi's mind.
He sat up abruptly, recalling the research data that Senior Tsuchikage and Vice Captain Mizuha had brought during the day.
This ancient herbivorous dinosaur, named Muranokrafton, was a social animal.
Several years ago, a small juvenile dinosaur fossil was unearthed in this vicinity!
It's not that it doesn't want to move; it's waiting here for its child!
Musashi instantly understood the real reason for the ancient behemoth's abnormal behavior.
Its resurrection due to the residual energy of the light virus was not for destruction, but for its past obsession.
Musashi immediately turned around and ran back to the camp to wake up all the sleeping team members.
"So that's how it is! No wonder food and inducements didn't work!" Tsuchikage instantly snapped out of his daze.
"Then what are we waiting for? Okay, let's begin!" Feng Chui suddenly stood up, full of energy.
Now that they knew the reason, the elite youth team immediately began working overtime through the night.
Fubuki and Reina were in charge of drawing the blueprints of the young Mudon on the huge wooden board, while Vice Captain Mizuha helped with color mixing, and Tsuchikage was holding a computer and frantically typing on the keyboard, trying to synthesize the roar of the young dinosaur through a simulator.
No sleep for one night.
As the first rays of sunlight shone on the earth in the early morning, the young elite team members, covered in paint and exhausted, collapsed haphazardly on the open ground.
"Finally... it's done."
The wind wiped the sweat from my face.
Just then, a series of hurried and chaotic footsteps broke the tranquility of the morning.
The site manager and several foremen from the construction teams were seen carrying several empty boxes, running frantically out of the tunnel with terrified expressions. They tumbled and crawled, scattering various electric drills and tools all over the ground.
"What are you doing?!"
Upon seeing this, Musashi immediately rushed forward, shouting, "Didn't we say the tunnel was dangerous and entry was prohibited?!"
Suddenly, he saw the remaining packaging of a gunpowder barrel on the ground and was horrified: "You...did you use a bomb?!"
The site foreman turned pale with fright and stammered, "It's all your fault! It's all your fault for not dealing with the monster quickly enough. The construction schedule is going to be delayed, so we had no choice but to take matters into our own hands!"
"What?!"
Before he could finish speaking...
"Boom—!!!"
A deafening roar came from deep within the tunnel.
Immediately afterwards, the earth began to tremble violently, and large chunks of rock collapsed from the mountainside.
With a roar filled with pain and rage, the ancient behemoth Mudon, which was originally docile, crashed through the top of the tunnel amidst a thick cloud of dust, its massive body completely exposed on the ground!
It got angry.
That cave was its former home, its last refuge as it awaited the return of its children.
And now, humanity has destroyed its only hope with explosives!
"roar--!"
With bloodshot eyes, Mu Dong rampaged across the construction site, his massive body crushing an excavator parked nearby with his huge feet.
Seeing Mudon stomping wildly towards the foreman and others, Musashi rushed to a deserted corner without hesitation and raised the Shining Stone in his hand.
"Gauss!"
A bright blue light shot into the sky, and Ultraman Cosmos descended with a roar, his hands firmly supporting the giant foot that was about to fall from Muton, saving Hashimoto and the others from the brink of death.
"Back off! Leave this to us!" Feng Chui raised his sidearm and covered the construction team's retreat.
Then, Feng Chui immediately changed the magazine and aimed at the berserk Mu Dong.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two specially made tranquilizer darts hit Mdon precisely in the neck.
But it had no effect.
"No! It's in a state of extreme berserk frenzy right now, the tranquilizer darts won't work!" Feng Chui reported through gritted teeth.
On the battlefield, Gauss also found himself in a fierce battle against the frenzied counterattack of Mundon.
He didn't want to hurt the poor mother, so he could only defend himself passively.
Mundon angrily shook his head, his sharp horns whistling as they pierced the air, heading straight for Gauss.
"Bang!"
Gauss was unable to dodge in time and was struck hard in the abdomen by the horn, causing a burst of sparks.
The immense impact caused Gauss to kneel on the ground in agony, his chest heaving violently.
Goodness, this monster looks just like Sinbo from the original series.
Master Gao got his comeuppance!
Is this monster really that ferocious when it goes berserk?
[The main reason is that Gauss was unwilling to use lethal force; the Luna form was too gentle.]
"If Musashi's prediction is correct, it will definitely attract its attention!"
Tsuchikage shouted, "Wind Blower, use that!"
Feng Chui immediately started the tractor and pushed the huge wooden planks they had worked on overnight to the edge of the battlefield.
On the wooden board, there is a lifelike drawing of a young Mudon.
At the same time, Tu Jing pressed the Enter key, and the synthesized roar of a baby dinosaur immediately came from the loudspeaker.
"Waaah—waaah—"
Upon hearing this call, Mundon, who was frantically attacking Gauss, suddenly froze.
It slowly turned its head, its bloodshot eyes fixed on the plank on the tractor.
Upon seeing this, Gauss immediately stood up.
He stretched out his right hand, continuously gathering the vast and pure light energy within his body into his palm, which then transformed into a soft beam of miraculous light that shone on the painted wooden board.
A shocking scene unfolded.
Under the transformation of light energy, the flat wooden board began to twist and recombine, eventually transforming into a three-dimensional illusion of a living, breathing "young Mudon"!
Little Mudong let out a tender cry and ran two steps happily toward Mudong.
The enormous ancient beast stopped in its tracks.
Looking at the child before it, the rage and fury in its eyes receded like a tide, replaced by endless tenderness and longing.
It slowly lowered its head and gently rubbed its enormous cheek against the illusion of Little Mudon.
"Mudon...it cried." Rena covered her mouth, her eyes instantly reddening.
The camera zooms in.
That colossal beast, over sixty meters tall and weighing tens of thousands of tons, actually shed large tears from its eyes.
"Mudon has finally met..." Vice Captain Mizuha said softly, "After waiting for tens of millions of years, he has finally met his child."
After finally seeing the child he had been longing for, the powerful obsession that had sustained Mudong's ancient fossil resurrection was finally released.
It let out a satisfied groan, and its enormous body began to transform into countless golden grains of sand in the afterglow of the setting sun.
"It was not the Chaos virus that awakened Mdon."
"But I just wanted to see my child again no matter what."
"So when the wish was fulfilled, it turned back into sand."
With a gust of wind, its enormous body completely dissipated, turning into grains of dust and returning to the land where it once lived.
The crisis was averted, and Gauss transformed into a speck of light and flew into the sky.
The members of the elite youth team silently watched the spot where Mu Dong had disappeared, remaining silent for a long time.
The scene freezes, and the end credits song begins to play softly.
Ultraman Cosmos Episode 5, The End!
However, the barrage comments on major video platforms exploded like never before when the end credits started playing.
【Ugh! Why did watching Ultraman make me cry?!】
[I'm so touched! I thought this was going to be a funny episode!]
[It turns out that it stayed in the tunnel and endured the beatings without fighting back because that was its home, and it was waiting for its babies!]
The construction team was disgusting! They almost destroyed someone's last hope of having a child!
We can't entirely blame the construction team; they were just trying to make a living and meet deadlines. It's simply an irreconcilable conflict between humans and monsters.
When love is deep enough, even fossils will weep!
If the first half of the story was filled with all sorts of hilarious and comical antics caused by the struggle for summer vacation, then the ending of Mu Dong turning into sand in the second half directly elevated the emotions of the entire series to a whole new level.
This stark contrast gave all the viewers a soul-stirring experience.
That night, "Lao Tang," a well-known content creator in the film and television section of a certain website, worked through the night to produce an analysis video for the fifth episode.
Video Title:
A Profound Tragedy Beneath a Comedy Shell! Analysis of Gauss Episode 5: The Clash Between Human Civilization and Ancient Obsessions!
Old Tang's familiar voice rang out:
"Brothers, after watching this episode, I sat in front of my computer in silence for a long time."
"I guess many people, like me, were amused when they first saw the elite youth team fighting fiercely for a summer spot, when they saw Kaze using a tank to pull a monster, and when they saw Rena poking a monster's nostrils with a cat toy."
Old Tang released a pre-edited funny clip for comparison.
"But when we saw the ending, when we saw M'don's tears turn into sand, all the jokes before turned into sharp knives, stabbing us hard in the heart."
"This is precisely what makes director Gu Nan so terrifying—without conflict, there is no drama."
"Let's analyze the core conflict of this episode." Old Tang spoke faster, and the video cut to the scene of the construction team and the youth elite team arguing.
"First, let's compare motivations. Why did the members of the elite youth team work so hard to drive away the monster in the first half?"
"It's for a vacation! It's to finish the task early and relax at the beach. There's even a vanity to claim credit. This mentality has completely deviated from the essence of problem-solving and led them into a blind, ridiculous act."
"But what about the monster Mudon?"
Old Tang's camera cuts to a close-up of Mu Dong lying quietly in the tunnel.
"It remains motionless, not because it's lazy, nor because it's stupid. It's waiting in a calm and long way for its child, which was actually dug up by humans long ago and will never come back."
The contrast between human impatience and the monster's tranquility is too stark.
This wave of mockery is off the charts.
"Secondly, and this is the deepest core of the drama—the direct conflict over living space."
Old Tang's voice became serious.
"Is Mudon wrong for waiting for the child in the same spot? It is not wrong at all. It did not even harm any humans, and even when it was awakened by human machinery, it just yawned and went back to sleep."
"So, were the construction team's foremen wrong? From a human perspective, they weren't wrong either. The construction was delayed, funding dried up, and behind them were countless families who needed to support themselves. The monster's enormous size hindered the progress of the project, and they had to drive it away, even resorting to explosives."
Yes, it's just a difference in perspective.
Although the people at the construction site acted extremely, they were indeed driven to desperation.
Everyone has their own difficulties.
Old Tang sighed: "This is what the Ultraman Cosmos series really wants to explore."
"Human expansion and development will inevitably squeeze the living space of other organisms. What should we do when such conflicts erupt?"
"Tiga tells us what light is, Dyna tells us what progress is, Gaia explores the will of the Earth. And Cosmos, with an almost cruel tenderness, tears open the complexities of human nature, forcing us to confront the growing pains brought about by our own development."
"Just as Captain Haruka didn't explicitly say at the end of this episode, but actually hinted at it: when humans treat these lives with arrogance and a playful attitude, the outcome will only be counterproductive. Only by calming down like Musashi, listening and understanding, can we truly dispel the fog."
At the end of the video, Old Tang showed the scene of Mu Dong shedding tears.
A melodious yet melancholic background music slowly flows through the room.
"I saw a lot of people commenting in the live chat that this was a tragedy. But I don't think so."
Old Tang's voice became very gentle.
"Millions of years have passed, and the world has changed dramatically. The fact that Mdon was able to revive in this unfamiliar era is a miracle in itself. And before it disappeared, it finally saw the child it had been longing for day and night."
"Although it was just an illusion constructed by Gauss with the light of miracles, for this ancient mother, that moment was eternity."
"When love is deep enough, even a fossil that is millions of years old will shed tears of longing."
"This is not sadness, but a joyous reunion that transcends the river of time."
The video ends abruptly here, and the screen goes dark.
But the comments on the screen went completely wild at that moment.
[Old Tang, you owe me for my tears! I just stopped crying and now I'm crying again!]
[“When love is deep enough, even fossils will weep,” this made me sad.]
This episode really shows that Gauss is a "compassionate" warrior...