Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

——This retired female soldier from the United States seems to have become more and more meowed as time goes by.

Dolores picked up the nape of her neck with a funny face, plucked two handfuls of smooth fur, then turned around and took out a pack of cat strips, thought about it and put it back, and opened a can of tuna instead, Push it to the mouth of Serena, the kitten who is eager to cook, and let her fill her stomach first.

Serena the cat cub continued to lower her head and ate two mouthfuls of canned tuna, and finally reacted belatedly. She couldn't help being a little shy, and immediately turned into a little black girl with a cat tail and cat ears, holding Canned ran to the cloakroom to get dressed on all fours.

Dolores, who was busy cooking, ignored her, because at this time the canned corned beef stewed in the big pot was almost done, with chopped potatoes, cabbage, onions, okra and tomatoes, and a few slices Green basil leaves are a good breakfast soup.

After tasting the soup with a small dish and feeling that the saltiness was okay, Dolores started making the fruit platter again.

She took out a bunch of fresh big oranges and cut them open one by one to let the sweet and sour juice burst out, and the sweet smell of oranges immediately wafted in the kitchen.

Next, with the soft knocking of fruit knives and cutting boards, the ripe sweetness of papaya and tomato, the sweetness of avocado and banana, and the strange aroma of various tropical fruits burst out one by one, giving people With a fresh and pleasant olfactory experience.

But then, the aroma of these fruits was all overwhelmed by the aroma of the freshly baked honey milk bread,

——The best wheat flour, the mellow and rich pure honey, and the silky smooth high-quality milk have become delicious delicacies in the home oven.

The freshly baked honey milk bread is so soft that it can be squeezed into a small ball in the palm, and it is delicious when it is torn into small pieces and dipped in thick soup.

When everything was ready and the bread, vegetable soup and fruit plate were served on the dining table, Dolores took off her apron, turned around and walked to the row of bedrooms in the backyard of the shrine, and greeted Akiyama Megumi and other witches and Ma Tong. Guests, call up one by one for breakfast.

——Originally, as a newly completed brick and wood structure house, the shrine should be filled with the smell of formaldehyde mixed with paint and carpentry glue.

According to common sense, it must be idle for at least a few months to dissipate the smell of formaldehyde before it can be used for living, otherwise it is a joke about health.

But after being [purified] by Akiyama Megumi's divine power several times, the air in this newly built [Qingqiu Shrine (Greenhill Shrine)] is unusually fresh and cool, filled with the breath of vegetation, and a touch of elegance The floral fragrance makes people living in it feel very comfortable.

After a while, Megumi Akiyama and a group of girls came out crookedly in their pajamas, yawning and stepping out.

"...Sorry, Dolores, last night there was a ceremony to consecrate the Inari statue in the main hall. Everyone was dragged too late and made too tired. As a result, everyone got up late today, so the one who made breakfast I left everything to you, I'm so sorry."

Ma Tong, who was supposed to be in charge of cooking with Dolores today, yawned and folded his hands together, apologizing to Dolores, "...how about you take a rest for lunch, and all the cooking work I'll make it all by myself! I'll let you eat Chinese food at noon today!"

"...The Chinese food you are talking about, shouldn't everyone eat hot pot together? Just pile all kinds of ingredients on the table?"

Miss Dolores looked at her former tenant with pesky eyes, "...the kind that people who want to eat even frozen meat slice themselves?"

"...Ahahaha, this...she really doesn't have the attributes of a good wife and mother, and the big pot of vegetables is too hot to handle."

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Most of the more traditional Japanese shrines do not have statues of gods, but only use bronze mirrors, jade, swords and other items as "divine bodies" to worship.

This is not because Japanese Shintoism "opposes idol worship" like the Abrahamic Trinity, but because one "divine body" can house many gods, which makes it convenient for the shrine managers to increase or decrease the number of gods worshiped at any time, so as to Cater to popular fashion.

Otherwise, if statues are to be erected, the old statues will have to be dismantled and replaced with new ones, which will not only increase the cost, but the small temple may not be able to accommodate too many statues.

But the fox god served by the little witch Akiyama Megumi is not just the Japanese Inari God, but he started from scratch in China and went down in history, went to India to study abroad and started a business, and finally settled in Japan for the elderly and became the Uga Inari God. Not native Japanese deities.

This [Qingqiu Shrine] is located in North America, not in Japan, so there is really no need to follow the customs of Japanese Shintoism.

After all, from a Chinese as well as an Indian point of view, it would seem strange to think of a temple without even a statue.

Therefore, according to the instructions of the Lord Fox God, Megumin Akiyama once again took out a full set of outfits at midnight last night when the magic power of the environment was the strongest, and used the magic of [Uncanny Craftsmanship] to "pinch" a two-meter-high nine-tailed white-haired big fox The auspicious statue is placed in the main hall of [Qingqiu Shrine].

Then, because Mr. Fox, who is born to love beauty, has high requirements for his "beast-shaped standard image", he must be solemn, beautiful, and lively... As a result, Akiyama Hui, who was in charge of casting spells, was forced to constantly Make revisions and fine-tune details, or even reinvent the wheel again and again.

Since Akiyama Megumi couldn't finish work for a long time, except for Dolores who happened to go home to rest, the rest of the girls could only stay up late to accompany her.

In the end, by the time the ancient fox god was finally satisfied with his statue, it was already 02:30 in the middle of the night.

Such Japanese-style high-intensity overtime work that makes people on the verge of death from overwork makes Akiyama Hui seem to have the illusion of being reduced to a social animal.

She was able to get up at 07:30 the next morning, it was already very reluctant, okay?

In fact, under the crimson moon at night, it is the time of the day with the strongest magic power and the most suitable time for casting spells. The three new Japanese witches who originally obeyed the ancient precepts to get up early and go to bed early were forced to follow Megumi Akiyama to change their schedules. It's getting worse and worse, and it's getting harder and harder to stay up early every morning.

Maybe one day, they will really all walk around day and night, turn day and night upside down, and maybe work and rest like vampires...

Akiyama Hui thought so sadly. At the same time, she picked up a piece of orange, tore off the outer skin, and threw the pulp into her mouth. The sweet juice immediately flowed from her lips to her throat, which immediately lifted her spirits. The cool wind blowing from inside dispelled the remaining sleepiness in her mind.

Turning around and looking at the courtyard facing the restaurant, the exquisite and beautiful oriental scenery made Akiyama Hui feel relaxed and happy.

——Although this courtyard located on the back mountain of Qingqiu Shrine is only ten meters square, it is quite quiet and elegant. Bamboo forests, rockery, strange stones, gazebos, and pools are all available, reflecting the antique houses. Underneath, it looks particularly bright and beautiful.

A stream of spring water gushes out from the rockery, making a "ding dong" sound, and the pool is covered with pebbles, so clear that you can swim in it.

And the edge of the cobblestone pool stands abruptly on the cliff, from the poolside you can look at the vast lake at the foot of Qingqiu.

Thus forming a visual effect similar to "roof garden" and "infinity pool".

——You can see the elegant courtyard and potted rockery in the near; you can see the wilderness, lakes and rural scenery in the distance.

Coupled with the many youthful and beautiful girls beside the courtyard, it is really fascinating to see.

It's a pity that although the scenery and people are beautiful, the news broadcast on the TV is one bad news after another, which makes people feel disappointed.

"...The post-disaster reconstruction of Los Angeles is progressing slowly. The victims complained that the tents issued by the government were damaged and leaking, and the relief food provided had long expired."

"...hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants cross the border from Tijuana, Mexico, where California has largely abandoned border controls.

Governor Newsom claimed that these immigrants are mainly young and middle-aged, and can fill the labor shortage after the Los Angeles earthquake and spiritual disasters. "

"... Nevada, Arizona, and Kansas have rampant banditry, and the FBI is leading a cross-state policing effort."

"... Zero-yuan purchases on the streets of New York have become the norm. Half of the shops on Fifth Avenue have closed down, and the landlord has reduced the rent by 30%, and no one cares about it."

"...a Republican campaign rally in Virginia was attacked when mobs drove a truck into the venue, killing three and seriously injuring six."

"...The Western Power Grid once again raised electricity prices by 20%, and residents complained a lot."

"...After the heat wave in Washington State subsided, the 'Corona' epidemic has eased, but its anti-epidemic methods are difficult to popularize in the United States in a short time."

"...Mutated smallpox has spread across the eastern states, the traditional smallpox vaccine is not effective, and no new targeted vaccine has been developed yet..."

"...In order to cope with the epidemic and adapt to changes in the market environment, the president plans to convert 25 golf courses under his company's name into cemeteries."

"...Foot-and-mouth disease and chicken plague continue to rage in the Midwest, and there are still no effective countermeasures. It is expected that meat prices will increase significantly."

"...drought and blight sweeping the central states, severe wheat, oats and corn crop failures are expected and international food price volatility."

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"...Hey, in spring, only people suffer from plague, then pigs and cattle suffer from plague, and now even the crops in the fields have suffered from plague."

While eating and listening to the news, Ma Tong couldn't help saying with emotion, "...and there's a drought? Is this going to be a famine?"

"...Famine in the United States? This scene is really unimaginable. I hope it won't be so tragic?" Akiyama Hui sighed.

"...a famine may not happen, but the price of bread and meat is estimated to increase, and the food bank may have nothing to relieve the poor.

I heard that because the air pressure on the North American continent is too high, the hurricanes cannot get in. Therefore, this summer, the hurricanes in the Caribbean either went to Florida or landed on the Yucatan Peninsula. Not even a hurricane went to Louisiana. That and Texas over here. "

Dolores also sighed in agreement, "... For us in Louisiana, without hurricanes, it is a good year for crop harvests, but for those inland states, without hurricanes landed to replenish water, the entire The rainfall in summer is about to plummet, and the natural drought is a mess.

Add blight, and locusts are often followed by droughts... Hey, I wonder how many farms will go bankrupt next? "

"...Wait, shouldn't there be an insurance company to take care of this kind of agricultural failure?" Akiyama Hui asked with a frown.

"...In the previous financial crises in the United States in the past few decades, which one did the insurance company cover? It must have declared bankruptcy in advance!"

The agent, Miss Freya, curled her lips, with an experienced look, "...Anyway, it's not impossible to start a new company in the future."

"...Hey, from this point of view, the next world is likely to get worse and worse, and continue to decline all the way."

Akiyama Megumi said, "... just in case, our shrine will continue to stockpile goods, at least three years of food, to be at ease!"

Chapter 243: The shrine is under construction

As the belief center of Inari God in North America, or "North American Inari Shrine", Qingqiu Shrine is located on Qingqiu Mountain at an altitude of 30 meters. Compared with the swamp wetland, it already seems to stand out from the crowd.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Megumi Akiyama looked down. Behind the freshly painted vermilion torii, you can have a panoramic view of the pastoral scenery in the distance.

Pulling your eyes into the mountain, you can see that surrounded by the stone steps of the approach and the corridors of the temple, the huge sacred tree tied with shimenawa rope rises up into the sky and stands proudly.This oak tree, born by the power of the forest goddess, is more than 20 meters high, and its huge canopy covers half of the top of the mountain.

Just this one tree is already lush and magnificent, and it can serve as the "guardian forest" of the entire shrine.

Around this giant tree, with a small square paved with stone slabs as the center, there are shrine worship halls, main halls, Kagura halls (stages/stages) and temizu houses with flowing water, large and small fox statues , as well as a huge offering box and a large copper bell hanging above the box.

In addition, there is a pill room for refining elixir, a library for storing religious classics, and a rare animal hall for keeping cats and foxes, etc.

A long and wide stone step approach extends from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain for pilgrims who come to visit the shrine to climb up the mountain.

At the same time, there is a narrow winding mountain road that goes around the back mountain, so that the electric tricycle can go directly to the house where Akiyama Hui and others live.

There is also a half-moon-shaped artificial lake at the foot of the mountain, as well as the surrounding rice fields, swamps and wetland jungles, which have also been transferred to the name of the shrine.

As a result, the land area owned by the entire Qingqiu Shrine has reached about [-] hectares.

According to Akiyama Megumi's vision, after the initial construction of the entire shrine is completed, it should be able to accommodate more than 100 people for long-term living.

If the religious economy prospers and drives the development of service industries such as hotels and hotels, it may even form a castle town with a population of a thousand.

In short, compared with the small Akiyama Shrine in the countryside of Fukushima County, the hometown of Akiyama Megumi, this Qingqiu Shrine is much more magnificent.

Of course, if it is in Japan, there are many Inari Shrines that are much more magnificent than this, and it is really not something to be proud of.

——In ancient Japan, the God of Inari, also known as "Yujinjin", "Kuradao Soul Life" and "Uga Yusoul God", was officially recognized by the Yamato court as the god of agriculture in charge of the rice harvest. One", among the gods of Gaotianyuan, the official position is the best, and the status is only under the main god.

Because he is in charge of rice, which is closely related to the lives of all Japanese, for the ancient Japanese, Inari God was no less important than Amaterasu Omikami and Tsukiyomi (the county magistrate is not as good as the current one), and with the development of the times With the development, people expressed many wishes to Inari God according to their own needs, which led to the increasing number of priests under the jurisdiction of Inari God: industry and commerce, wealth, family life, home safety...almost everything is in charge.

In order to spread the reputation of Inari God more widely, and to make wishes more conveniently nearby, more than 3 Inari shrines have been built across the country.

The most magnificent of these is the Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kyoto, which has the world-famous "Thousand Torii Gates" stretching from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, which is several kilometers long. The total number of temples has exceeded [-], and each one was built by people to fulfill their vows.

Rich and wealthy believers purchase giant trees and build a luxurious large torii gate to express their respect for Inari God.

Believers who don't have much money get together with others to build two small torii side by side to save space and materials.

Those who are poorer can find a few sticks and build a pocket torii gate two or three feet high, and place it in front of various fox statues in the mountains...

Compared with the Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kyoto, there is only one torii at present, and it is still the Qingqiu Shrine built by the witches themselves, which is really shabby.

So...the mission has not been successful!Miko still needs to work hard!

Akiyama Megumi said this to himself, and then walked to the busy construction team on the shrine construction site to see how their renovation progress was.

Although the entire Qingqiu Shrine, and even the mountains and lakes at the foot of the shrine, were all built by her squandering divine power to cast spells and use [Supernatural Workmanship].

But with her ability, at most it is just like the modeling of computer games, just "pinching" the main building structure of the shrine. As for the more specific tap water, electricity and sewage systems, as well as the decorations inside and outside the shrine, You have to rely on professional decorators.

At present, the circuit for the living part of the shrine has been laid, but the lighting of the tourist visiting area and the road up the mountain has just begun.

A group of construction workers temporarily seconded from the reconstruction site of Los Angeles Disneyland are installing solar street lights on both sides of the stone steps up the mountain.

Several other workers laid a layer of colorful mosaics on the bottom of the originally bare pool in the hand water house.

There is also a garden designer who just flew in from Japan, typing on a laptop under a parasol, inputting the data just surveyed and mapped.

Then, together with colleagues in the office, they designed several landscape construction plans for Qingqiu Shrine.

——Although Megumi Akiyama stated clearly from the beginning that the shrines built in the United States must maintain their independence, and it is impossible to continue to accept the management and leadership of the shrine’s main office.

But the main office of the shrine is still like a licking dog. It is very enthusiastic to contribute to the newly established Qingqiu Shrine, donating money and giving things.

Because, regardless of whether the Qingqiu Shrine listens to the command or not, just spreading the faith to the United States is already great news.

Right now, we have to make the cake bigger before we can consider how to divide it—the so-called one has two, as long as the huge faith market in the American continent is opened, there will definitely be other Japanese shrines in the future, like mushrooms after the rain, Emerging endlessly on the land of the United States.

At that time, the shrine hall will not be able to control the Qingqiu Shrine, which uses hydrogen bombs as fireworks. Can it also be unable to control other small shrines that follow suit in the United States in the future?

In addition to the above-mentioned long-term benefits, the short-term benefits are also not without. Although Akiyama Hui refused to bow his head and surrender, but he cannibalize people and take advantage of others. Rewards should be made within the scope of one's ability.

At the very least, if there is any terminally ill patient from Japan, Akiyama will definitely use magic to treat and rejuvenate.

Moreover, the main hall of the shrine does not need to pay any money of its own, and the major consortiums in Japan are happy to invest some funds in this matter.

—— Today’s Japan has already entered the aging stage for many years. Regardless of the financial, business, or political circles, there are a bunch of trembling old guys who are in power. Naturally, everyone is very afraid of death. No expense has been spared for anything that prolongs life and health.

As for the more than 3 Inari shrines all over Japan, they are even more elated and honored that their main gods have become famous in the United States.

Hearing the news that Qingqiu Shrine was completed overnight, they held celebrations one after another to congratulate them.The Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kyoto did not hesitate to airlift six ancient fox statues to the local area. Other Inari Shrines also joined in and sent a lot of antique calligraphy and paintings by airmail.

The crowd gathered firewood with great enthusiasm, relying on the efforts of so many "enthusiastic people", the Qingqiu Shrine has already taken shape in a short period of time.

As the owner of this shrine, Megumi Akiyama naturally wants to give back and encourage all "enthusiasts".

First of all, Megumi Akiyama wrote a letter of thanks to the big donors who donated a lot of money to Qingqiu Shrine and said in the letter that Qingqiu Shrine is planning to hold a grand harvest festival during the late rice harvest season. In this way, Qingqiu Shrine is officially opened for business.

If the distinguished guests are interested, they can come to watch the ceremony and enjoy the hospitality. Even if they can't come, Qingqiu Shrine will give you medicine afterwards.

However, there is no guarantee that the elixir refined in the shrine will be effective when it is outside the range of spiritual energy recovery.

Secondly, Megumi Akiyama wrote to express his gratitude to the various Inari shrines in Japan who enthusiastically supported them, and claimed that after the conditions are ripe, they can accept several Inari shrine maidens from other shrines to come to Qingqiu Shrine for training and imparting spells, so that Promote faith, promote divine power and so on.