Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

Once this governance ability declines, the terrible climate conditions in North America will easily destroy the achievements of civilization on the continent.

Therefore, the United States, with an unstable climate, will either always be strong, or it will be half-destroyed by hurricanes, droughts, floods and snowstorms in turn.

And Kansas and Oklahoma to its south are the main battlefields where cold and warm air currents from the north and south collide in the central Great Plains.

This is one of the reasons why Kansas is rich in ghost towns and Oklahoma is rich in tornadoes.

Continuing east through the sun-baked cornfields of Kansas, the convoy entered Missouri, a state rich in cheaters.

Well, when Asians mention Missouri, they often think of the battleship in Tokyo Bay that signed the Japanese surrender agreement at the end of World War II.

But in the prejudices of Americans, Missouri is a well-known lair of liars, also known as the "fraud state."

——Of course, the best time for Missouri swindlers was about 100 years ago, and now these gangsters have long been behind the trend.

Most of the most common scammers on the Internet in the United States are from India; while the most common scammers in reality are more from Europe.

From entering Missouri, the natural environment on both sides of the road has become luxuriant vegetation and humid air to the extent visible to the naked eye.

——After all, the vast Missouri River and the Mississippi River flow on this land, nourishing the fertile black land in Missouri, so that the fertile soil in the Mississippi River Basin will not be like the Central Valley of California, which is often affected by drought bothered by.

And the local Missouri barbecue is a classic delicacy that travelers can’t help but taste—whether it’s rubbed with spices, then grilled slowly over low-temperature charcoal fire, smeared with thick tomato sauce, and skillfully blended with sweetness And spicy Missouri roast pork chops, or smoked steaks "brown on the end" are all unforgettable palate treats.

Then, as Megumi Akiyama's green leather car drove between the plains and hills of Missouri, she ate Missouri barbecue while watching the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on the car TV.

Unlike the plane she traveled to before, the "Corona" plague in this plane was even more tragic, and the number of deaths from the plague worldwide exceeded tens of millions within half a year.

However, because European and American countries have already laid down in advance in April and May this year, basically canceling all epidemic prevention, and most other third world countries have also followed suit, resigned to fate, the Tokyo Olympics can be held as scheduled in the summer of 2020, and It's not delayed until 2021.

Although the Tokyo Olympics was held one year earlier, the balloons with human heads in the sky above Tokyo, the giant voodoo dolls in Shinjuku Gyoen, the swimming track filled with feces, and the various Fukushima radiation ingredients in the cafeteria are like refugees. The Olympic Village in the camp, the cardboard box beds for the athletes... and all kinds of magical things full of underworld colors (paper beds are used for burning in China), none of them are missing, and some have even increased.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games were changed into two extremely grand Shinto festivals.Priests and priestesses from the oldest and famous shrines in Japan, such as Itsukushima Shrine, Ise Jingu Shrine, and Izumo Taisha Shrine, all dressed in costumes, holding ritual instruments, and carrying mikoshi, appeared on the stage in full color.

The problem is, unlike the beautified music and dance of witches and goddesses in anime games, these original ceremonies are not so cheerful and solemn and sacred. Instead, the rhythm is slow and tedious, and some people are drowsy. But it makes people feel some kind of indescribable horror.

Even the witches are dressed in a way that is not at all youthful and beautiful-wearing bulky clothes, wearing ugly old hairstyles, their faces are either painted pale, like plastering on the wall, or wearing weird clothes. The mask is not so much a dancer to please the gods, but more like a scary female ghost in the middle of the night... Thus, it is hard to make a good Olympic Games full of atmosphere in the underworld, which can be called a great reward for human delusion.

And this series of underworld operations, which took so much trouble to get to the end, was just lonely—it didn’t trigger any supernatural phenomena at all.

Because, with the recovery of aura centered on the western part of the United States, the westernmost range has not yet reached Hawaii, and it is even farther away from the Japanese archipelago!

Where there is no spiritual energy at all, how do you let the gods and demons come down?

The above-mentioned underworld operations that lead directly to the underworld have no other benefits except to let the world fully realize how underworld Japanese culture is.

As for the scores of the specific events in this Olympic Games, the medal rankings of the teams from various countries, etc., in fact, no one cares about it anymore.

Anyway, all the grades were terrible, none broke the record, and all kinds of jokes were full of pitfalls.

In addition to all kinds of underworld stuff, the most talked about part of this Olympic Games is that 21 athletes from various countries, plus more than 50 staff and volunteers, died unfortunately due to various strange reasons during the Olympic Games ——Basically, it’s more or less related to the COVID-19 virus, either directly or indirectly—it’s really going from the Olympic Games to the underworld, and it feels even more hellish!

In addition, there are more than 50 unlucky athletes who unfortunately died in an air crash on the way to Tokyo before the Olympics and when they flew out of Tokyo after the Olympics, including a gold medalist in shooting.

There is no way, this year the planes all over the world seem to have been plagued by the same plague as humans, or have been repaired by Hindustan Airlines. The number of air crashes in just half a year has exceeded the sum of the previous 20 years—not only Civil aviation airliners and even fighter planes from various countries dropped very diligently.

In this way, amidst the gloomy and weird painting style and the hellish colors shining with the stars of death, the Olympic Games, which lead directly to the underworld, came to an end.

The organizers, who tried their best to usher in the extraordinary era, were disappointed; the audience around the world, who were overwhelmed by the painting style of the underworld, scolded them like a wave.

At the same time, it was accompanied by an epic plunge in the exchange rate of the yen, which has now fallen to the point where two hundred yen is exchanged for one dollar.

——This is no longer falling through the bottom of the valley, falling through the floor, falling through the basement, but falling directly into the underworld all the way!

In addition, Japan's economy is running its largest ever deficit -- in U.S. dollar terms.

It is conceivable that after the closing of the Olympic Games, the people's livelihood and economic depression in this country will be bleak.

However, for Megumi Akiyama in the United States, all the weird stories about the Tokyo Olympics are just anecdotes from afar.

In contrast, the United States after entering August, although it is still chaotic and noisy, not only the city is haunted by ghosts and zombies, Black Lives Matter is expensive, but countless thieves and bandits are emerging in the countryside, and the government is still catching homeless people and running prisons... But only " As far as the Corona” plague is concerned, it seems to be getting better.

——Although there is still no vaccine or specific medicine, only magical treatment that cannot be promoted on a large scale, but after millions of people "deserved to die", the virus may be suppressed by the extreme heat of the midsummer season The activity of the epidemic in the United States has indeed eased to some extent.

For example, in New York City, where the "Corona" plague was rampant in the past few months, the number of "19 deaths per day" has been maintained for a long time. Since the end of July, the number of people who died due to the COVID-[-] virus has been Fell to the relatively less terrifying "a thousand deaths a day"

On August 19, the number of deaths from the COVID-[-] virus in New York City fell below [-] for the first time, leaving only three digits.

Officials in New York were ecstatic about this, and the mayor boasted even more, boasting of "contributing to the epidemic prevention" and declaring that "good days are coming back soon"!

——As for these days, more than one hundred people die from heat stroke in New York every day. Such trivial matters are selectively forgotten by the mayor and others.

In addition to New York, the number of deaths and infections from the "Corona" plague in other cities in the United States has also dropped significantly, making many Americans who thought the end of the world was coming, feel a little relieved, I thought that this nightmare might be over soon—in the distant history, didn’t the plagues that ravaged ancient civilizations all run rampant for a period of time before disappearing silently?

Although there is no scientific basis for this idea, desperate people really need a straw.

Even if they lie to themselves, they are more happy to hear that "the good old days are coming back".

What makes Akiyama Megumi, who is in Missouri, feel so much about the "good life" is that the prices around her have finally dropped sharply.

"... 87 gasoline...$20 a gallon? If I had been in the past, I would have given the middle finger to that price, but after buying a hundred dollars a gallon of 87 gasoline in Nevada, why do I suddenly feel this way? Is gas already cheap?"

Standing in a gas station in Missouri, looking up at the gas price on the electronic billboard, Ma Tong said this to Hui Akiyama.

In addition to the sharp drop in oil prices, the prices of various other daily necessities, from toilet paper to toothbrush and toothpaste, from tortillas to pasta, are much cheaper in Missouri than in Nevada-although with the epidemic Compared with before, the price has also increased by at least 50%.

But compared with the sky-high price of goods in the desert town of Nevada, it is already a price of conscience.

Next, the convoy led by Megumi Akiyama came to the second largest city in Missouri, St. Louis on the Mississippi River.

Then, here, the little witch Akiyama Hui finally experienced for the first time the feeling of disappearing spirit energy and falling into the mortal world...

Chapter 223 Sin City on the Mississippi River

St. Louis, an inland port city in eastern Missouri, is also called "Wuhan of the United States" by the Chinese.

Because the location of St. Louis, a city in the middle of the United States, is very similar to Wuhan, the "thorough of nine provinces", it is really unique.

——It is not only the geometric center of the American territory, but also the railway hub of the United States and the largest inland port in the United States.

The Missouri River and the Mississippi River meet in St. Louis, especially the Mississippi River, simply directly through the city.

A total of fourteen railways and four highways converge in St. Louis, and the railways passing through the city account for 73% of the country's total mileage!

Long before Columbus discovered the New World, it was the power center of Mississippi's indigenous civilization, with tall altars and temples built here.

Later, French explorers came to the Mississippi River to purchase furs from the Indians, so in 1764 they immigrated and built a city here as a fur trading post, named St. Louis after the king.By the time the United States was founded, inland water transportation in St. Louis had been extremely developed.

Moreover, just like Wuhan, which is located in the two commercial grain bases of Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain, within a thousand miles around St. Louis, it is also fertile black land.The surrounding area is rich in resources, making St. Louis once the only industrial city in the United States that can produce six kinds of metals.

When the United States launched the westward movement, St. Louis became the only way for the pioneers to go west.

The immigrant caravans from the eastern states started from St. Louis, crossed the Mississippi River here, and set off for the wild west with a vision of a new world of freedom—so they vividly called this place For the "gate to the west".

In order to commemorate this pioneering history, the Americans in the 60s built a 192-meter-high steel structure giant arch on the banks of the Mississippi River in the center of St. Louis, just like a steel rainbow. above the earth.

Where it is illuminated by the sun, it is so dazzling, and the part covered by shadows is so majestic and vigorous.

Anyone who has seen this "Gate to the West" will be deeply impressed by its magnificent image.

At this moment, Megumi Akiyama, together with other tourists, stood at the foot of the "West Gate" in St. Louis, looking up at this steel landmark building standing on the banks of the Mississippi River like a rainbow bridge, and the sparkling Mississippi behind the gate. river.

In the eyes of the American pioneers at that time, St. Louis was the dividing line between the east and the west, and the junction point between civilization and wildness.

In the eyes of Megumi Akiyama at this moment, St. Louis' "Gateway to the West" is also the dividing line between mystery and ordinary.

——The aura-shrouded range in the Midwest of the United States, which extends eastward across the Rocky Mountains until here, finally reaches the end.

Therefore, in the eyes of Qiu Shanhui who has activated the spirit vision, in front of the "gate to the west" is a place without demons where the extraordinary disappears.

It is difficult to describe this invisible dividing line in words. It feels like a layer of transparent soap bubbles. The two sides are visible from each other, but there is a world of difference.

To the west of the dividing line is a mysterious place full of aura and magic reappears; to the east of the dividing line is still an ordinary world without gods and demons.

Moreover, this layer of "soap bubbles" separating the mysterious and the ordinary is not fixed, but fluctuates like the tide.

During the day, the extraordinary power is suppressed by the sunlight, and the area covered by the aura shrinks to the west of downtown St. Louis.At night, when the red moon appears, the mysterious revival, the area covered by the spiritual energy will expand slightly, extending to East St. Louis on the other side of the Mississippi River.

It was dusk at this moment, and the boundary of the spiritual energy expanded again from the urban area, and it had already advanced to the "West Entry Gate" tens of meters away from the river bank.

Seeing this thing that looks like the "air wall" in the game, all the strange people who came from afar felt a little flinching.

In the end, it was the little witch, Megumi Akiyama, who gritted her teeth and took the lead, and quickly walked through the steel rainbow called "The Gate to the West".

——Also took the first step to step out of the spiritual energy.

Then, leaving the aura/magic power that had been with her for several months, an indescribable heaviness immediately rushed to her shoulders.

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After leaving this invisible diaphragm, it feels like a fish jumped out of the water, or a weak person climbed a thousand-meter-high mountain.

The spiritual power that originally flowed smoothly in the meridians and blood vessels of the whole body suddenly became like glue, dull and stagnant.

Even the simplest breathing became a little laborious, and I felt uncomfortable with every movement of my hands and feet.

And the thinking in her head has also become sluggish, as if she has stayed up all night without sleep-even though she obviously slept well last night.

If she was a sports girl full of energy before, now she has become a social animal who works overtime a lot and is not far from death from overwork.

After a while, Kei Akiyama regained his breath, turned around and gestured "OK" to the strange people behind him to report his safety.

Next, Sister Salma, who led all the succubus sisters, tremblingly walked to the edge of the slowly moving aura.But just as she stretched out her left hand out of the coverage of the aura, she screamed like an electric shock, and jumped back with a painful expression.

The rest of the people gathered around to take a look, and found that there were large scorched black marks like burns on her originally smooth and tender arms.

Fortunately, Abby, the disease witch from Thailand, was nearby, and she just cast a magical spell to erase the scar on her hand.

"...After you are transformed into a succubus, you are already complete mythical creatures and no longer belong to mortals."

Relying on the knowledge instilled by the gods, while examining and treating the injured Salma, Abby said to the other succubi, "...and your personality is far from the gods, so you can't escape the magic at all. Survive in the environment, otherwise the body condensed by supernatural power will collapse.

This injury looks like a burn, but it is actually more similar to radiation sickness, it was destroyed at the genetic level..."

Next, the Thai girl Abby also walked through this invisible barrier and stood side by side with Akiyama Megumi outside the range covered by the aura.

But after only staying for a short moment, she shook her head with a pale face, turned around and quickly retreated into the aura.

"...No, no, it's so uncomfortable! It feels like I'm drowning. And my head hurts like a needle prick!"

Abby, whose race was changed to Tiefling, complained so while clutching her horns. At the same time, she looked at Ma Tong, Yu Asakura, and the new Japanese witch with a little envy, strolling along the banks of the Mississippi River as if nothing had happened—because she didn’t have extraordinary power Because of this, they are completely indifferent to this invisible dividing line.

"...I'm fine, but I feel more tired, probably because I haven't changed my race."

The little witch Akiyama Hui stood outside the [air wall] of the aura border, rubbing her forehead and said, "...But Empress Daji (Tamazao) hates the environment without aura, she said it feels like being re-sealed in the killing life Shili. So..."

She turned her head and announced to the crowd, "...Our investigation trip this time is over when we go east to St. Louis. There is no need to go east and cross the Mississippi River. Next, we will turn around and go south. Go to Louisiana!"

"...I don't want to continue going east, it's a kind of torture. But there's no need for us to start now."

Abby, the witch of disease, added, "...it's rare to come to St. Louis, so you have to take a good look before you go?"

The rest of the people nodded and said yes, Akiyama Hui thought about it and did not raise any objections, so he decided on the next course of action.

So, brother Yu Daoan was kicked out of the green leather car, and he took the one thousand dollars that Ma Tong lent him to find a bus to go to Florida without mentioning it.

And the rest of the girls began to visit this sin city on the banks of the Mississippi River, the most famous crime capital in the United States...

——Yes, you read that right.

Today, the city with the highest crime rate in the United States is not Chicago, not Detroit, not Baltimore, but St. Louis, Missouri!

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Although in terms of the status of a transportation hub and the advantages of geographical location, the city of St. Louis, located at the confluence of the Missouri River and the Mississippi River, is very similar to Wuhan, which is located at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Han River...But perhaps because of the Due to long-term de-industrialization, Wuhan in China is now a super city with a population of tens of millions, while St. Louis, the "Wuhan of the United States", has a population of only 30 million.

In addition, at present, more than half of the residents of St. Louis are black, so the city is dilapidated, the infrastructure is old, and the law and order are poor. The appearance of many communities is dilapidated. Abandoned factories and warehouses can be seen everywhere. Underneath, it's like a doomsday ghost town.

It's hard to imagine that such a small broken city, like Beijing, once hosted the Summer Olympics!

Well, the reason why the city of St. Louis can host the Olympic Games is naturally because it once had a good time.

As a bridgehead for Americans to enter the west from the east, St. Louis rose rapidly in the [-]th century because of the westward movement—during the vigorous westward expansion, German immigrants brought breweries here, and French immigrants developed here. Capital, technology, manpower and material resources from all directions poured into this place, relying on the extremely convenient railway and water transportation conditions, so that St. Louis developed rapidly.

In 1904, St. Louis ushered in the brightest moment in its history - as the fourth largest city in the United States at that time, it hosted the Olympic Games!

But in the days that followed, St. Louis began to go downhill.

——Since St. Louis rose with the help of the westward movement due to its superior geographical location, then after the westward movement of the United States is over and the "Manifest Destiny" from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean is completed, the geographical location of St. Louis will not be so superior .

As a result, rich whites migrated to the coastal areas, while poor blacks began to move in large numbers, changing the ethnic proportions of the city.