The location of New Tokyo City has always been a controversial issue in Japanese society.
Some people first hoped to build New Tokyo City on the site of old Tokyo, so as to reflect the significance of "New Tokyo City" and symbolize the glory and unyielding power of the Yamato nation.
Of course, there are some people who insist on opposing it, and what is surprising is that most of these people are survivors of the old Tokyo city. Perhaps out of fear of Mount Fuji, they do not want the new Tokyo city to be rebuilt on the original site.
For me, that is a domestic matter for the Japanese. I am a Chinese and I just came to Japan to find my sister, so no matter who I see on the road holding a sign to protest, I turn a blind eye. But there is always trouble.
I came uninvited. Soon after I arrived in New Tokyo, which was only a quarter completed, I was dragged into the streets by a group of protesters.
Even though I kept trying to tell them in my broken Japanese that I was just a tourist and begged them to make a way to let me out, in the end I was still stuck in the crowd and kept pushing forward. The protest team initially only had about a hundred people.
, and most of them were young people. Later, after passing through several streets, it grew to several thousand people.
Having never experienced such a big battle before, I finally chose to compromise.
When I was forced to come to the big square in front of the provisional government, I saw armored vehicles and rows of Zhengxing soldiers in gray-brown military uniforms from a distance. I panicked at that time and started trying to escape again, but I didn't expect that.
An unknown person in the protesting team detonated the bomb, and for a moment, the scene was completely out of control.
The protestors were divided into several categories.
Some, like me, were so frightened that they ran around and were at a loss; some were so excited that they joined hands and attacked the defense line of the Zhengxing Self-Defense Forces; and some took advantage of the chaos and started to create more panic.
Seeing this scene, I clearly realized that this protest was being taken advantage of.
And I was very likely to become an innocent victim... With a strong sense of survival, I survived in the end, and even received help from other protestors. They gave me a first aid kit for treating abrasions, and also gave me
I have some water and food.
The water was mineral water and the food was frozen hard rice balls, but these things helped me survive the 419 incident that shocked the world. This was the most serious conflict between the Japanese provisional government and the people since the eruption of Mount Fuji and the sinking of Japan.
conflict. Although the mastermind behind the attack on the Provisional Government Building by the protestors was finally found and tried by the International Court of Justice, the lives of 3,650 innocent people were still saved. There were also many protesters among them.
The Zhengxing Self-Defense Forces members who were never willing to shoot at their own compatriots.
Every time I think about that past, I feel filled with emotion.
In the following years, I found a temporary job in Neo-Tokyo City through someone's introduction. At the same time, I delivered food part-time to support myself. I spent all my spare time searching for my sister's whereabouts.
But there was always no news.
Decades later, I finally learned the truth.
My sister Xian Luoan is dead. In the second year after she came to Japan to study, she was involved in a whirlpool that she had no way of resisting, and lost her life.
Decades later, her brother and I were almost eaten as food.
Now that I am traveling to Japan again on a private plane to find out the truth, my heart is no longer at peace.
Just now he told me everything that my grandfather experienced.
Until today, I didn't know how the old man who lived a full 165 years could live forever. It turned out that he made a deal with the "Old God".
…
After landing at New Tokyo International Airport, what came to greet us was not the motorcade he had prepared in advance, but the suit-clad samurai group of the Shimizu family.
These guys are far more dangerous than the gangsters who dominated the world back then.
When he got off the plane, he waved his hands helplessly at me and said, "It looks like we have fallen into a trap."
I glanced at him. Although this guy was indeed me, he was still very annoying.
I could tell from his calm tone that he was very relaxed, which made me feel at ease. The person responsible for picking us up was a girl wearing a black and white martial arts uniform.
When I first met this girl, I thought she was a character from a comic book.
He is dressed in a very traditional Japanese style, with a wooden knife stuck to his waist and his long black hair tied into a neat ponytail with a bright red headband. He is really handsome.
"Two gentlemen, my name is Qingshui Ya, and I am here to greet you two on the order of Qingshui Yinji, the patriarch of our Qingshui family."
I stood behind him without saying a word.
He smiled and touched his chin and asked, "Master Yinji, are you inviting us or kidnapping us?" After saying this, the guy deliberately looked more at the group of unsmiling suit warriors behind Qingshui Ya.
The average height of these guys is over 1.9 meters, and they are very impressive when standing in a row.
But when I saw them wearing suits, sunglasses, and holding samurai swords, the more I looked at them, the more awkward I felt. I thought to myself, "What if they were all replaced with umbrellas and the sunglasses were replaced with black-rimmed glasses that are more Jantelmann-like?"
More handsome?'
While I was thinking wildly, Qingshui Wu smiled, "Mr. Xian misunderstood, Mr. Yinsi has no intention of kidnapping you two. On the contrary, you two are great benefactors of our Qingshui family, so we want to ask you to come."
I’m going to be a guest in the clan.”
I came back to my senses after hearing this, and then sneered and asked, "Are you a great benefactor? Does your eldest lady also think that we are benefactors?"
After hearing my words, Qing Shuiyu looked calm as usual. She smiled slightly, "Miss Yinzi is also waiting for you in the clan."
I rolled my eyes, wondering how these guys could be so shameless.
He didn't care that much.
"Well...that's it, okay, we accept the invitation, but not today, please
Don’t mind, girl, we do have some personal matters to deal with, and when the matters are settled, we will naturally visit you in person."
Qing Shuiyu frowned when she heard this. She whispered, "Sir, I know this is rude, but you two are not very popular in New Tokyo City now. If you insist on leaving, you can still
Please bring along the guards prepared for you by Master Yinsi, just in case."
I was startled when I heard the words and didn't understand.
He seemed to have known these things for a long time, so he smiled and waved his hands and said, "I appreciate your Lord Yinji's kindness, but let's forget about these guards... Originally, when I came to New Tokyo, I didn't want to make everyone unhappy, so
We are going to travel in a low-key manner, but if you arrange such a big tail for the two of us, wouldn’t it be too ostentatious? What does the old saying in China say? "
He suddenly looked at me.
I said casually, "A tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind."
He smiled and said, "Oh yes, the big tree attracts the wind."
I"……"
Qing Shuiyu couldn't understand the two people in front of her, but seeing our firm refusal, she had no choice but to give in. "Since you, sir, have already prepared, we won't bother you any more. We'll take our leave."
After saying that, the girl turned around and left, neatly and neatly.
Looking at her swaying figure that could not be hidden even though she was wearing a large martial arts uniform, I smiled and said, "The girl from the Qingshui family is really pretty."
He laughed dumbly and shook his head.
After leaving the airport, we entered the city with only two escorts.
After the cross-dressing was completed, I could no longer recognize myself in the mirror. He asked me, "Do you still remember our names?"
I touched the squid-like wet mask on my face and hummed uncomfortably, "Remember, your name is Huangshan and my name is Bailu."
I don't know how he came up with such a stupid name.
I couldn't help but ask myself, 'Is my level that bad?'
The pseudonym Huangshan is a president-level figure who owns two teahouses in Japan, and my identity as Bai Lu is just one of his drivers. Our purpose of coming to Japan this time is to find a veteran who has worked in the National Security Department.
This man's name is Zhang Fengyu. It is said that his whereabouts have been unknown, but he has appeared in New Tokyo recently, and many people have come to visit him.
Huangshan is one of them.
I asked him why he didn't go directly to the Qingshui family and went to find this guy named Zhang Fengyu first.
As a result, he told me...
"Because this man named Zhang Fengyu is the only god who has been in contact with the four 'old gods' but is still alive. If the information I received is correct, his appearance this time should be related to the scene in the forest a year ago.
It’s related to the war between Japan and China.”
I don't quite understand.
He added, "Like us, he is also looking for someone."
"who?"
"Yougege."
"Who?!" I was stunned when I heard the words, and it took me a while to realize the deeper meaning.
He repeated lightly, "Yougege, don't tell me that you don't know this person! You went to Xuzhou for more than half a year just to meet her, but in the end, let alone the interview, you were not even allowed to meet.
See you."
I smiled slightly.
Indeed, I really admired Yougege back then, and I also read her books many times.
But the mystery of this female writer is also rare in the world.
She never accepts interviews from anyone, and has never seen anyone photograph her going out.
During the years she lived in Xuzhou, she was clearly in a busy city, but she seemed to be living in seclusion in the mountains, which was really confusing.
It is said that she was later taken away by people from the National Security Department, but where exactly she went is unknown. From then on, she seemed to have disappeared from the world, and no one has seen her again.
At that time, many people speculated that she might have died long ago.
After all, some private doctors can often be seen entering her residence, so it is speculated that she may not be in good health.
Some people also say that she is actually still alive, but because she participated in some mysterious projects of the National Security Department, she can no longer live like an ordinary person.
But no matter which one, Yougege quickly faded out of the public eye. Even her controversial and famous book "Freedom Awakening" was completely removed from the shelves in a very short period of time, and many countries even banned its sale.
Nowadays, many young people don’t even know that there is such a person as Yougege.
Only an uncle-level guy like me still remembers her.
So now that I heard that a veteran from the former National Security Department had reappeared with the purpose of looking for Yougege, my interest suddenly spiked.
But he quickly poured cold water on me.
"But let me explain to you in advance. The purpose of our coming to New Tokyo this time is to sort out the grudges and draw a clear boundary with the Qingshui family. We are not here to solve another mystery. So... I took you to find Zhang Fengyu just to make peace with you.
He made a deal in exchange for enough bargaining chips with the Qingshui family, so don't go looking for Yougege with them when your head gets hot."
After all, I understand myself more thoroughly.
When I heard this, my face immediately heated up, and I forcefully defended myself by saying, "You think I'm a child. Why are you curious about anything you see? Do you still need to remind me?"
But he just smiled and then asked, "Who am I?"
"Huangshan."
"What do I do?"
"The tea seller."
"wrong!"
"ah?"
"You run a teahouse, boss! Be professional!"
I rolled my eyes and said, "Oh, oh, I know, I run a teahouse."
"how about you?"
"White Dew."
"What do you do?"
"driver
ah."
"Oh... driver... driver, you are sitting in the back seat, and you are also sitting in the boss's seat?"
I"……"
After getting out of the car, I changed into the driver's seat and got ready. I tried my best to smile and turned around and asked, "Boss, where are we going?"
Boss Huang had already entered the state. He lit up a cigarette, squinted his eyes and blew out a smoke ring and said, "Go to Shinichi Town."
"where?"
“Look up the map yourself!”
"Pfft!" I suppressed my smile and called up the car navigation system, confirmed the address and drove to my destination.
The guards' cars were following us at a distance, so they couldn't get too close, as this would make it easier for them to reveal our position.
On the way, I asked, "I kept hearing you say that we are not welcome in New Tokyo now. When we got off the plane, the girl named Qing Shuiyu also said the same thing, but I am confused, so you are not going to explain it to me?"
He crossed his legs and smoked the pipe, "Actually, the person they don't welcome is me, not you, but we are inseparable from each other. After I came to this city to save you, I fell in love with this city by the way."
Chemical reaction, so they started to hate me twenty years in advance, and they also hate you by the way."
I heard it in a daze and felt a little dizzy.
"Wait a minute... you mean... it's not because of what we did now that we are hated by them, but because of something you did twenty years later that made them hate you. But now that you have traveled back in time, you just
Did you bring this dislike back too?"
"Yes."
"I x, are you really lying? Is it fun to lie to me?" I still don't believe in the time-travel trick.
But he flipped the coin and said, "Why am I lying to you? For others, time is an established reality that cannot be fought against, but for you and me, it is just a long corridor. As long as I want, I can go to any time node, but
The problem is... every decision I make about time will interfere with the entire world, and those uncertain factors will also create new variables, leading to many unpredictable disasters... So... what do you think they will do twenty years later?
Did you just start hating me?"
I frowned and asked vaguely uneasy, "Um...why?"
"It's not just to save you!" He said angrily.
I was dumbfounded. It took me a long time to react and said, "That's not right! Your coming to save me is an act of self-rescue, and... how could you come to save me from the future? This is a paradox!"
But he looked out the window with a cold face and said, "It's a paradox, but this is the most powerful thing about them?"
"Them? You mean the 'Old Gods'?"
He snorted coldly, "Otherwise, who can easily tear apart the space and time of reality and mess up the order?"
I seemed to understand all of a sudden.
The words "Go ahead..." were indeed not said casually.
"Then... do you understand what the avatar said 'go' means?" I stopped the car at a red light intersection and asked.
He actually closed his eyes and rested his mind at this time.
"Hello!"
He closed his eyes and said impatiently, "You will know later."
"I..." I really wanted to strangle him to death, but when I thought that strangling him to death would be equivalent to committing suicide, I lost my temper at all.
The green light came on and I stepped on the accelerator to move forward.
The antique internal combustion engine roared as I drove through the street. Suddenly the ground shook violently. I subconsciously stepped on the brakes, and he was hit in the head by the shaking.
"Ouch! How do you drive?" he complained.
I ignored him and stared blankly ahead.
He covered his head and looked forward, then took a breath, "Mom, what's going on!"
I got out of the car and I could hear people screaming everywhere on the street. Many people were rushing past me and running away.
He also got out of the car.
The two of us walked to the front and looked at each other speechlessly as we looked at the street that was cut in half.
The shock that triggered a great riot was caused by the sudden collapse of a large pit in the center of the city... The originally smooth thoroughfare turned into a dangerous cliff.
The ground sank for hundreds of meters, and it was pitch black deeper. It looked like the door to hell had been opened.
Sirens sounded and city managers began to evacuate people.
I looked around and saw that the pit must be at least seven or eight hundred meters in diameter.
Such a sudden collapse was rare, but he frowned, as if he had a premonition of something.
"Boss, what do you say? Is it a natural phenomenon or an accident?"
He narrowed his eyes, turned around and looked around and said, "It's probably not..."
I understand, is it still related to those things?
"Let's go back to the car first." He said and walked back.
I was stunned when I heard this, "Hey? What are you going back to the car for? Didn't you see that this area is blocked?"
He didn't explain, but went straight into the car and sat in the driver's seat.
I also got in the car.
"Then what?" I asked.
"Fasten your seat belt, let's go." After saying that, he pressed a red button, and the old antique car suddenly swayed, retracted its four wheels, and transformed into a flying car over the city.
aircraft.
I was amazed and quickly fastened my seat belt.
He drove the vehicle slowly into the air and said, "It looks like our trip to Tokyo will be very long."
I looked at him puzzled, and then I heard a "boom" sound, like a muffled thunder explosion.
I was so shocked that I shrank involuntarily.
When I looked into the distance again, a pit appeared!