Tokyo people don't talk about Wude

Chapter 248 245. NHK expediter
A trip to Fukuoka is like an interlude during summer vacation. After returning to Tokyo, Kyushu Makoto resumed his daily life day after day.

Contact the workplace and the Yugami Detective Agency, and take advantage of the summer vacation to work more and make money. Although he does not seek wealth, the more money the better.

In addition, Kyushu Makoto also took the time to visit several martial arts gyms in Tokyo to learn from their operational experience, and made a request for discussion with the gym owners, intending to have in-depth exchanges with them.

As expected, however, all these challenge requests were rejected by the museum owners.

Modern society is governed by the rule of law. If you win a fight, you will be jailed or you will be hospitalized if you lose. Therefore, martial artists cannot act recklessly based on their arrogance.

If the gym owners really agree to compete with Jiuzhou Cheng, they will lose face if they lose; if they win and the opponent backhands and calls the police, the martial arts gym will also suffer.

What's more, these gym owners didn't know Jiuzhou Cheng's background, and didn't know whether he was here to exchange ideas or to cause trouble. So they simply rejected him sternly from the beginning to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Kyushu Cheng also had no choice but to express his deep understanding and left helplessly.

After today's work, Kyushu Cheng took away the leftover green pepper fried beef and fried noodles sold in the restaurant where he worked, and returned home to eat.

"Ding-dong--!"

Just when he picked up a bunch of fried noodles with his chopsticks, an untimely doorbell sounded outside the door.

Kyushu Cheng put down his chopsticks, walked to the entrance door and asked, "Hello, who are you?"

Through the peephole on the door, Jiuzhou Cheng saw a man in a suit and leather shoes standing outside the door, with a work badge hanging on an orange sling on his chest.

"Hello, is this Mr. Jiuzhou!" The person at the door rang the doorbell a few more times, looking impatient:

"I'm a salesperson from NHK. Could you please open the door if it's convenient?"

Hearing this, Kyushu Cheng suddenly straightened his face: "Sorry, it's inconvenient."

According to his understanding, there seems to be an unwritten rule among Wano people, that is, never open the door to someone who calls himself an "NHK salesperson."

NHK is the first national comprehensive radio and television station in the history of Wano. It is involved in news information, TV series, music, sports events and children's programs. It is considered a giant company in the broadcasting industry.

Unlike other peers, this TV station does not have any advertisements or sponsors. Instead, it is able to pay service fees to all people who can watch the TV station in accordance with the "Broadcasting Law" formulated by the Wano government.

The payment price of NHK TV station is not cheap. You need to pay 1,300 to 1,500 yen a month, which is a lot of money in a year.

In the past era when information technology was underdeveloped, "watching TV" was the preferred indoor entertainment activity for most people, so the existence of this law is reasonable and necessary.

But today's Internet is extremely developed. Young people can complete all kinds of entertainment as long as they have mobile phones and computers, and televisions have begun to become obsolete.

Even so, NHK Broadcasting Company has not considered keeping pace with the times, but continues to rely on the prestige of the Broadcasting Law to forcefully collect fees from all people who can watch its TV stations.

This attitude caused dissatisfaction among the people. Many people think that they do not watch NHK TV, but they are forced to pay monthly just because they have a TV at home. This behavior is really unreasonable.

As a result, "How to prevent being forced to charge by NHK" has become a hotly discussed topic. Anyway, we can afford to hide if we can't afford to offend them. As long as we pretend that we are not at home, don't open the door to NHK salesmen, don't answer debt collection calls, bury our heads in the soil and act like an "ostrich", NHK will give up and retreat. .

However, NHK TV station also thought of a bad move - hiring a large number of non-staff personnel to stalk the people and force the residents to sign paying contracts through high-intensity confrontation.

According to online reports, these non-staff toll collectors have done many things that are outrageous to both humans and gods, including but not limited to verbal intimidation and threats to residents, investigating residents' personal privacy, repeatedly squatting at residents' doors like thieves, knocking on doors in the early morning to harass residents, and even taking advantage of residents When opening the door, he reached out to remove the anti-theft chain and forced his way in.

Many people who adopted the "ostrich tactic" eventually couldn't stand the harassment from those supernumerary toll collectors and were forced to sign payment contracts.

Because of this, NHK TV station has attracted the anger of people and gods alike. NHK toll collectors are the god of plagues. They are the ones who "will become unfortunate if you open the door for them."

The apartment building that Kyushu Cheng lives in is newly built, and most of the residents are financially well-off, so it is logical that it is targeted by NHK and becomes their key target. Whenever they see a new face moving in, they will come over and pester them.

In fact, Kyushu Makoto has not installed a TV at home and does not plan to watch NHK channels.

But he didn't intend to open the door to the NHK toll collector outside. Just like even if there is no dog food or meat stored at home, most people will not open the door to a wild dog squatting at the door.

Sensing the obstacle, the NHK toll collector outside the door did not give up. The doorbell was gradually replaced by a knock on the door:

"Mr. Kyushu, I am a salesperson from NHK. Please don't turn me away. Let's come in and talk!"

"I don't have a TV at home." Kyushu Cheng replied calmly.

"Then please let me come in first and take a look!" the NHK toll collector insisted:
"According to the provisions of the Broadcasting Law, as long as it is any electronic device that can watch NHK channels, including mobile phones and computers, you are obliged to pay fees to our company! Mr. Kyushu, you won't say that you don't have a mobile phone, right?"

"." Jiuzhou Cheng took a deep breath and retorted:

"But my mobile phone and computer have not downloaded the software that can watch TV, and I can't watch your company's TV channels. Please come back!"

"Please don't embarrass me, Mr. Kyushu!" The NHK toll collector still refused to give up:
"It is every citizen's obligation to pay to NHK TV station! You don't want to break the law, do you?"

"Please come back." Jiuzhou Cheng said again: "This is the second time I have said it, and I don't want to say it a third time."

This time, it was the other party who was stunned. The law of Wano Country stipulates that if someone breaks into someone else's residence without permission and refuses to leave after being warned three times by the owner of the household, he or she has committed the crime of "domestic trespass."

This trick is exactly what many people use to persuade NHK toll collectors to quit, and it basically works every time. Most of those toll collectors are external temporary personnel, and there is no need to get themselves involved in the bureau just for a single business.

Realizing that Kyushu Makoto was a tough guy, the NHK toll collector had no choice but to leave angrily.

Kyushu Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and went back to eat.

This group of NHK toll collectors are fierce on the surface, but in fact they have inherited the fine tradition of the Japanese people who bully the weak and fear the strong. As long as they realize that the resident is a tough one, they will retreat and stop pestering them.

On the contrary, as long as the residents show a weak attitude, they will intensify the harassment at their door. They will come ten times at a time and even if the negotiation fails during the day, they will come early in the morning to harass the residents, causing the residents to suffer great mental torture.

Even Zhuge Liang would agree to leave the mountain after being asked to visit the thatched cottage three times, let alone these ordinary people? Many people are unbearable and eventually have to
After finishing the meal, when Kyushu Makoto went out to take out the trash, he saw an NHK toll collector standing at the door of the apartment on the left, apparently entangled with the neighbor girl.

"Miss Zuo, please open the door! I know you are at home!" The NHK toll collector slapped the door roughly and kicked the door with his feet from time to time. The force was so strong that the whole corridor was rattling, as if it was Deliberately disturbing the public:

"Your parents sent you to study in our country. Surely they don't want you to be sent back because you didn't pay the audio-visual fee for our TV station, right?"

However, no matter how hard he knocked, there was no response from the door.

"Miss Zuo, if you are not free today, we will come back another day. I hope you are ready!" The toll collector said something that seemed like a threat, glanced at Jiuzhou Cheng with a strange look, and then turned and left. .

After the commotion outside the corridor subsided, Kyushu Cheng was about to go downstairs to take out the trash, but the neighbor's door was slowly opened a crack.

The girl who calls herself "Kingko" pokes out from the crack in the door again. Her long black hair is messy and not taken care of much. There are faint dark circles on her pale face that has not been exposed to the sun much.

"Have the people from NHK left?" She said to herself cautiously, but when she saw Kyushu Cheng, she shrank in fear.

"He left, but he should come again." Jiuzhou Cheng turned around and said:

"In the future, if you encounter people from NHK coming to harass you, you must refuse them sternly, and don't pretend that no one is home. They will investigate your life patterns in advance, so they know very well when you are at home, and they will keep coming to harass you. ”

NHK salespeople also have a unique skill, which is "noise disturbing residents". When faced with a resident who pretends to be away from home, the salesperson will punch and kick the door and shout loudly, deliberately making noise in the corridor and disturbing other surrounding residents.

According to the peculiar brain circuits unique to Wano people, most of the affected surrounding residents will not blame the NHK salesperson who is the culprit, but will blame the harassed residents for not paying the bill obediently or sternly refusing, causing everyone to All were implicated. Under the rebuke of neighbors, the harassed residents will eventually be unable to bear the psychological pressure and choose to pay the bill obediently.

Of course, Kyushu Makoto is not from Wano. He believes that if NHK operators make noise that disturbs residents, the fault lies with the operators themselves, not the residents being harassed.

Although he has a good temper, he is not a very kind person. If the NHK salesman frequently comes to harass the neighbor in the middle of the night and makes him unable to sleep well, then he will take out his anger on the salesman.

"Okay, I got it." Jingzi was stunned for a moment, nodded in panic, and prepared to close the door.

"Wait a minute." Jiuzhou Cheng reached out to stop her and reminded: "We are neighbors. If you need help in the future, please come to me."

"Thank you." Jingzi's eyes wandered and his voice became smaller and smaller: "Thank you for the last meeting gift."

After saying that, she closed the door like a ghost.

Kyushu Cheng wanted to exchange more words with this neighbor, especially when he heard the NHK toll collector call her "Miss Zuo" and said that she came to study abroad.

"Is she also from Yanhuang?" Jiuzhou Cheng guessed.

However, this neighbor is obviously not very willing to communicate with outsiders, and Jiuzhou Cheng does not intend to force her.

After taking out the trash, Kyushu Cheng went home and played with his mobile phone for a while, looked at tomorrow's work schedule, then washed up and went to bed.

I have to work for a moving company tomorrow morning, so I need to go to bed early.

"."

"咚咚-"

"Dong dong dong——!"

"Miss Zuo, please open the door!"

"It's three o'clock in the morning, who is it?"

"Hello, I'm a salesperson from NHK. Please let me come in and talk!"

"Ah! Don't come in with the anti-theft chain! Get out!"

"Excuse me, I'm coming in! Oh~ Miss Zuo, you happen to have a TV at home, please allow me to take a photo first - it seems you are obligated to pay us~"

"My TV is used to play games, and the TV function is not enabled!"

"That's okay. As long as you have a TV at home, you are obliged to pay us the fee~"

"Why don't you touch me like this? Let me go!"

"Please be quiet, Miss Zuo~ It's so late, everyone should be asleep. You will cause trouble to the neighbors if you are so noisy~"

"Ahhhhhh-! Help!"

"This is a signing contract, please cooperate with me and sign it obediently~"

"Let go of my hand! Don't touch me!"

"Miss Zuo, please don't resist. As a foreigner who comes to study abroad, you should respect the laws and regulations here, right?"

"Ah! Help! Help me!!!!"

"!!" Jiuzhou Cheng was awakened in the middle of the night and heard a noisy argument coming from next door.

His bedroom is on the left side of the apartment, separated only by a wall from his neighbor Jingzi's house. If there is a big noise in the other party's house, Jiuzhou Cheng can also hear it.

Although he didn't hear the conversation next door clearly, Kyushu Cheng heard Keiko's screams and the faint cry for help.

Kyushu Cheng jumped out of bed and ran out without hesitation, grabbing an umbrella and a kitchen knife along the way.

After running out of the door, Jiuzhou Cheng saw the door of the next door open, and the cry for help inside was intermittent, but it was full of the girl's despair.

"Is it a home invasion?" Jiuzhou Cheng took a deep breath: "It sounds like there is only one robber. That's right. After all, she is a girl who lives alone and has no ability to resist."

He held the umbrella and kitchen knife tightly, and rushed forward with rapid strides.

Entering the living room of Keiko's house, Kyushu Makoto saw a man in a suit with a slicked back grabbing the girl's wrist and forcing her to put her fingerprints on the contract on the table.

The man in the suit looks arrogant. According to Jiuzhou Cheng's experience, this is the temperament that only a prostitute who has been on the streets can have.

On the other hand, Jingzi's face turned red, her hair was messier than usual, and there were even red marks on her wrists.

Seeing Kyushu Cheng barging in with a knife, the man in the suit was stunned for a moment, while Keiko seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, looking like she was about to cry but had no tears.

"Let her go, you beast!" Jiuzhou Cheng grinned and roared, then rushed forward with a ferocious smile on his face.

Twenty minutes later, police cars and ambulances came to the apartment building one after another, illuminating the street with red and blue light.

The ambulancemen put the unconscious man in the suit on a stretcher and carried him out, while the police asked the two about their situation.

After many explanations, everyone finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

NHK collectors raided Keiko's home in the middle of the night and forced her to sign a payment contract by breaking into the house and using force. Kyushu Cheng mistook the other person for a home invasion robber, rushed in to save the person without saying a word, strangled the "gangster" unconscious under "extreme fear", and stabbed the other person five or six times.

The police chatted with the two for twenty minutes and then left. They did not arrest Kyushu Makoto - he was still a minor. If he really wanted to get to the bottom of it, he would just be sent to a juvenile detention center for two months, and he might even be caught. Journalists focused on it, causing unnecessary public controversy.

Moreover, the young man's subjective intention was to help his neighbors drive away the intruders, but his methods were a little too extreme. And the behavior of the NHK toll collector was indeed illegal. Keiko could sue him for a series of crimes such as "illegal trespass" and "sexual harassment."

Because this incident made a lot of noise, the apartment manager also rushed over to check. After learning what happened, he cursed angrily:

"NHK is really going too far. I heard that they have recently started to hire people who are idle in society to do their work. These policemen who are just doing their jobs don't care!"

After hearing this, the police officers smiled bitterly in unison and did not respond to the complaint. They are just a bunch of low-level handymen. How can they have the right to cause trouble for the largest TV station in Wano?
After some commotion, the incident finally came to an end.

"Then I'll go back first. Remember to lock the door at night and don't open it for anyone else." Kyushu Cheng waved to Jingzi and prepared to leave.

"Ha...ha...ok" Jingzi was obviously frightened. She had been shivering in her coat since just now, her face was so pale that no blood could be seen, and her pupils were always shrunk to one third of the whites of her eyes:

"So...terrible...terrible..."

With her frightened appearance, like the heroine of a ghost movie, I'm afraid whether she can sleep peacefully tonight will be a problem.

Just before Keiko was about to close the door, Kyushu Cheng suddenly stopped her:
"Can I delay you for a little while and talk to you a little bit?"

(End of this chapter)