When Ultraman appears in reality, however:

Chapter 766 Qin Haoyu's Choice

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Qin Haoyu has traveled a lot.

Those roads were shameful and tragic to him.

The red youth form of Nexus quickly flashed a colorful timer, and at this time Qin Haoyu lost interest in everything.

If being Ultraman is a crime.

If the original self.

In a trance, Qin Haoyu caught a glimpse of the past, and when Pedron and other alien beasts suppressed him again, the past appeared.

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Qin Haoyu felt that he had walked a long road with no end.

The gravel beneath his feet jarred his knees, and every step felt like rolling over broken glass. Those clever little tricks that once made him smug, those battle stances he'd deliberately struck to attract attention, now rusted with an awkward rust in his memory—like a child wearing adult armor, only to have reality rip off their disguise, leaving them in a state of utter embarrassment with nowhere to hide. For him, this path was both a shameful self-deception and a tragic realization of the truth.

Ding Dong...Ding Dong...Ding Dong...

The flashing of the colored timer grew increasingly rapid, like a countdown to a battle doomed to failure. Qin Haoyu stared at Pedron, who was approaching again, and suddenly felt exhausted, so exhausted that even lifting his arm was too much of a bother. The remaining fighting spirit in his heart was like a match soaked in rainwater, no longer able to spark.

"If being an Ultraman is a crime..." He murmured softly, a rusty sweetness rising in his throat.

If I hadn't been blinded by the false reputation of "becoming a hero" at the beginning, if I hadn't felt that despicable resentment when I saw others raising the transformation device, would I not have ended up in this situation today?

In a trance, Pedron's sharp claws came with the sound of wind, but Qin Haoyu did not dodge.

boom!

After a heavy blow, Nexus staggered and fell to the ground.

From this moment on, he didn't want to be Ultraman.

After barely eliminating Pedron, countless enemies began to appear again. Even though he evolved into a blue youth form based on his own understanding, the situation of the battle was still not reversed.

What’s even more exaggerated is that at this moment, Qin Haoyu was only thinking about how to escape instead of continuing to fight.

The speed of the blue youth form was indeed astonishingly fast. Every swing of the Storm Sword could create a large number of energy ripples, but the enemies were like weeds that could not be killed. When one group fell, another group would immediately emerge.

Only when his physical strength was exhausted did Qin Haoyu's eyes go black and he fell to the ground.

But at the same time, the winged phantom would not really deal with Qin Haoyu. The black Nexus in front of him simply stood still, denying all of its attack methods.

At the same time as Qin Haoyu was defeated, Nexus also pierced the enemy's chest, causing the hurricane to completely disappear from the earth.

Although the winged phantom had been completely destroyed, the phantom field it had cast before its death remained. The phantoms of the alien beasts, constructed by mental power, continued to roar softly, but they had lost the ability to physically attack. They were more like a lingering nightmare, haunting Qin Haoyu's consciousness.

Yue Ji walked over to a broken tree stump and sat down. His gaze fell on the struggling blue figure not far away. He wouldn't step forward to help, nor would he urge them on. The Phantom Field was the final test left by the Winged Phantom, and it was a hurdle Qin Haoyu had to overcome alone.

Qin Haoyu's consciousness was swirling in the chaos. He could feel the alien beast in the phantom field still roaring, but he no longer had the courage to raise his head.

Those thoughts about "meaning" and "vanity" are still swirling in my mind.

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The path Yue Ji had trodden was paved with broken bones and the ashes of light. Qin Haoyu simply couldn't walk down such a path. Driven by a desire to "become the light," he tried to imitate and catch up, but it was like trying to build a mountain with sand; he was heading in the wrong direction from the start.

The illusion of phase space suddenly distorted, and the blood-red sky resembled an overturned organ, so thick it seemed to drip with water. Countless alien beasts circled high in the sky, some dragging broken tentacles, others with shattered pieces of armor hanging between their fangs. The sound of their wings flapping in the wind was mixed with tiny, infernal sobs.

Qin Haoyu stumbled forward in this blood-red fantasy, his sight filled with memories of Yue Ji's unspoken past. He saw those he once cherished, no longer mere afterimages torn apart by alien beasts, but instead toys for those monsters to vent their twisted desires.

This was the "experience" Yue Ji had so casually described. It had sounded so heavy then, but now, witnessing it with his own eyes, Qin Haoyu's chest felt like it was being crushed by a boulder. A mixture of anger and powerlessness surged up his throat, only to be uttered in a stifled sob. It turned out that behind those seemingly lighthearted words lay a heartbreaking purgatory.

He hesitated in the illusion for a long time. When Nexus, in the form of a blue youth, stood up again, the illusions of the alien beasts in the sky suddenly dissipated, and only one enemy was left on the field - that was the original Nexus, with a thin figure and dim light patterns, like an immature cub, but with a strange and wrong aura.

Qin Haoyu was stunned. This figure... looked too much like Yue Ji, and was very similar to how he looked when he first gained power.

"You're right..." His voice echoed in the empty space, carrying with it an undisguised exhaustion. "I might not be suited to such a high-intensity battle."

The erroneous Nexus looked up at the blue giant, the light in his eyes growing dimmer.

"I didn't think about this at first. I thought the battle would just be a little more difficult, but now..."

He felt the excruciating pain coming from deep within his bones. "I'm covered in wounds! I really tried my best! I've given it my all!"

The accumulated grievances and pains burst out at this moment, and Qin Haoyu's mentality changed drastically in desperation.

"I've evolved into a young blue man. I've made it this far!" He roared at the errant Nexus, tears in his voice. "But those alien beasts are so difficult to deal with only because of your strength! You're the one who made them more and more ferocious! I really tried my best... I would at least, at least have the Wings of Stone!"

The real Yue Ji couldn't hear these tearful excuses. But standing outside the hurricane, he could clearly sense the fluctuations in Qin Haoyu's consciousness—they were complaints of extreme exhaustion, the weakness of blaming failure on external factors, and the complete collapse of the faith supported by desire.

And the wrong Nexus on the field was the last chess piece placed by Yue Ji.

He had long known that Qin Haoyu would not be the successor. This man was special, having experienced loss and possessing a tenacity that refused to admit defeat. He even had more potential than Wang Ye before him.

The heart that can become light is wrong.

At the same time, it would hasten his death.

The wrong Nexus stood there quietly, the light patterns flashing with a cold light, as if silently announcing the end of this trial.