The legend of Tiga

Chapter 2087 Hedong and Hexi

It all started in 1982, when the moon was in the midst of a boom in development. Major countries were planning to launch rockets to the moon to establish a lunar base in order to mine helium-3 that was widely distributed in the lunar soil.

That year, NASDA launched the Hagoromo-7 heavy-lift launch vehicle to build a lunar base. Iruma Megumi's father was at the control center, and Iruma Megumi's husband, Katsuto Miura's father, was on the rocket.

Not long after the launch of Hagoromo-7, a super power craze was set off due to the media hype. The centerpiece was the second generation super power user, an elementary school student with telepathic abilities, who was dubbed the "clairvoyant boy" by the media.

However, the craze did not last long, because many media outlets soon revealed a series of "fake" evidence, proving that this super-powered boy was just a "money-making tool" promoted by some adults.

The myth was shattered in an instant, and coupled with other news, this "super-powered boy" was soon forgotten by people.

But in reality, the boy was secretly transferred to a certain place and taken over by professionals to verify his super powers.

The person in charge of this matter was Qianye Ying, who was known as a "genius" at the time.

Not long after, the higher authorities received the report issued by Qianye Ying, stating that this elementary school student named Kirino Makuo did not have the so-called "superpowers" and it was probably a carefully planned hype.

At that time, the lunar base was being built and helium-3 was being successfully mined, so the attention paid to superpowers was not as high as before, and the matter just passed.

But after this incident, Qianye Xin, who had always focused on the "future", suddenly turned to the unpopular "archaeology" track and began to dig, dig, and dig everywhere.

After many friends tried to persuade him in vain and outsiders were laughing at him, Chiba Ryo actually excavated a settlement site that was clearly from the Iron Age, further below a site believed to be from the Jomon period.

This discovery caused a sensation in the entire archaeological community at the time and shocked countless archaeologists.

Because according to the normal sequence, human development went from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age. Even if there were ruins piled up, the Stone Age should be at the bottom.

But this place is the opposite. Under the Stone Age ruins, Iron Age ruins were discovered.

This is totally counterintuitive.

Even more impossible.

It is impossible to say that people in the Iron Age lived underground.

What is even more incredible is that after investigation, it was found that this Iron Age site is even older than the Stone Age site above, which is even more unbelievable.

People all over the world were hammering stones, and at most they could make some bronze, which was already the beginning of using iron tools. And after mastering iron tools, they would regress to stone tools after a while.

This is not just against common sense, it's treating everyone as fools. Anyone with an IQ above 80 would not believe such an irrational and outrageous thing.

In this world where competition is visible, if you retreat, there will always be someone scrambling to climb up and won't mind stepping on you.

The genius went crazy, and that made a lot of people very happy. They despised, slandered, looked down on, and even wanted to kick this fraudster out of the scientific community.

However, the Chiba couple seemed to be possessed. They totally ignored the outside world's evaluation and studied this site that was considered to be "fake" by the outside world. Even if there was no funding, they would continue the research at their own expense. They were considered "crazy".

All kinds of outrageous and incredible behaviors, coupled with the lack of new results for a long time and the emergence of many talented people, led to them being gradually forgotten. Not to mention ordinary people, even the scientific community was almost forgetting them.

This can be seen after the attack on the Asian Air Force base. When deeply mourning the victims, the Chiba couple became one of the numbers after the word "etc.", instead of the names in front. This shows how much their popularity decreased during the period of "madness" and "possession", and it is almost impossible to find such people.

Originally, everyone thought so, thinking it was just a story of "The Injury of Zhongyong", but after Chiba Makoto came out of nowhere, many "old people" who had experienced that period remembered the short-lived "genius".

Too many people want to know how the ordinary Chiba Makoto became Ultraman and why he became the "only true god" in the world. Every fragment of his twenty years of life has been carefully studied under a magnifying glass.

As his parents, they naturally could not escape the fate of being "the center of public attention" and were also being interpreted, with people wanting to know how they gave birth to an "Ultraman".

Chiba Ryo's various behaviors were interpreted in a reading comprehension style, especially the fact that a promising "future" scientist suddenly turned to archaeology, which made people today very concerned. They thought that it might be related to Chiba Makoto's transformation into Ultraman, so more than one group of people were investigating along this line.

It wasn't difficult to find out that before switching to archaeology, he had been in charge of the "superpower" project, and that superpower person was none other than the superpower person who had been confirmed to have telepathic abilities - Makuo Kirino.

The place where Qianye Xin dug out the Iron Age ruins under the Stone Age ruins "happened" to be near the pyramid that contained the giant stone statues. Qianye Cheng also "happened" to appear nearby when the glowing pyramid appeared.

So many coincidences, such a long time span, and involving two generations, it really cannot be explained by just one word "coincidence".

Therefore, many people believe that there must be something wrong with this place. Perhaps it contains the key to Chiba Makoto becoming Tiga. If there is no huge benefit, why would a scientist with a bright future dig in this deep mountain forest at all costs?

Therefore, the "land of counterfeiting" that was almost ignored when Qianye Ying was still alive has become extremely popular since 2010. Many people and forces want to squeeze in to see what is so special about this Iron Age site hidden under the Stone Age site, and what kind of relationship it has with Ultraman Tiga.

The number of downloads of dozens of articles published by the Chiba couple in the field of archaeology has also skyrocketed. It is not a doubling, but an increase with various zeros added at the end. This shows how popular these papers, which were once disdained, have become in recent years. It is no exaggeration to say that they are being studied word by word.

What the scientific community admires most are naturally the several "conjectures" about super-ancient civilizations. These are speculations made by Qianye Xing based on the relics he unearthed. He believes that before the ancient times, there was a prosperous super-ancient era, but it ended for various reasons. However, it was not completely cut off, but rather survived, which led to the emergence of this "advanced technology" that surpassed its contemporaries.

(End of this chapter)