Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

As a result, everyone obviously lives in the Los Angeles metropolis, but in terms of safety, they have already entered the wild camping state of the adventurer team.

——Monsters will be refreshed every dark, and monsters may be attracted to attack if there is no light... This is the magical status quo of certain blocks.

Therefore, Akiyama Megumi and Valentina discussed it and decided to take turns to watch the night. Akiyama Megumi would keep watch in the first half of the night, and Valentina would keep watch in the second half of the night.

If there are signs of thieves breaking in outside, the night watchmen will immediately wake everyone up and call the police with their mobile phones.

As for the landlady Dolores who was just struck by lightning in the afternoon, she is still a sick person at the moment, so she needs to be treated preferentially. She will go back to her room to have a good rest tonight.

In this way, Valentina went to bed first, and Akiyama Hui came to the roof with the alcohol stove and soup pot, and kept vigil while stewing chicken soup.

At this time, it was said to be late at night, but in fact it was only around ten o'clock.

Although the street where the apartment is located has been completely dark due to power outages, occasionally terrifying gunshots and shouts can be heard from afar.

But looking towards the city center from the roof of the apartment building, there are still bright lights.

However, in the eyes of the little witch Hui Akiyama who has activated her "spiritual vision", she can see countless dark air masses shining with faint aura, hovering and hovering over the city, most of them are ominous black air, but there are also dark purple air masses. , emerald green, bright yellow, emerald green and other colors of aura.

These auras are as ethereal and illusory as thick fog, looming, but at the same time rising and rolling, people can't help but feel awe.

If you look down at the ground, you can see a clear blue-white spot, like a torrential river, flowing past the foot of the apartment.There is also an aura that emanates, like a fountain, gushing out from the ground around the apartment, permeating around the small red brick building, decorating it like a fairyland.

In addition, on the ground in the distance, sporadic blue and white auras can also be seen occasionally, but they all flash away like fireflies in summer.

She closed her eyes subconsciously, rolled them vigorously, and then opened them...

There is still such a fairyland scene full of aura.

This is clearly the spirit vein!

The heaven and earth that I wish for are actually right under my feet?

What kind of luck am I? !

"... What a blessing in disguise! My lovely child."

The melodious voice of the ancient fox god Yuzaoqian quietly sounded in Qiu Shanhui's heart, "...Even I didn't expect that the thunder that fell in the afternoon from the local heaven would blow up this street at night." A spirit vein!

Megumi!From now on, you don't have to look for any other paradise, this house is good enough.

At least in half of the cities in the south, it is currently impossible to have a good spiritual place that is more aura-filled than this house! "

"...Eh? Did a lightning strike turn this dilapidated old house into a fairy cave?"

Qiu Shanhui shouted incredulously in his heart, "...Isn't this blessed land too easy to come by?"

"... This house is still far from the real Paradise of Paradise, but at least when the spirit energy is first born, this place is enough."

Yu Zaoqian replied, "...the revival of spiritual energy in this land has only just begun, and the land veins are also in chaos. Otherwise, how could a spiritual vein be created today because of a mere thunder disaster? It just took up the spiritual energy Chaos, clear and turbid, nothing but cheapness that has not yet formed.

It's just that this kind of spiritual pulse is easy to get and fast to go.It is often like morning dew, which is fleeting...you should be on guard..."

——According to the introduction of the ancient fox god, Qiu Shanhui's cleansing of essence and marrow this time is considered a great fortune. Not only did he let others suffer the thunderstorm for him, but also because the thunderstorm disturbed a chaotic spiritual energy and earth veins, Actually, on the street under her feet, a spiritual vein was shot out!

However, unlike the [genuine] spirit veins that can be passed down for hundreds of years in Xiuxian novels, the spirit veins that appear at her feet now are a hasty trial version, and it may only be a few months, at most a year or two. After the probationary period, it will automatically dissipate.

For example, even in the extremely arid desert, occasionally due to sudden heavy rains, new rivers and lakes will appear instantly in the Gobi Desert, and even reeds and grass will grow, attracting birds and animals. Form a fast-growing oasis full of vitality.

But desert rivers, with their associated oases, popping up like this are precarious.

Even if the torrential rain can continue to rain, instead of returning to drought soon, the temporary river channel washed out by the rain at first may not be able to maintain it, but it may dry up due to diversions in a short time, or even disappear inexplicably.

In the same way, the spiritual veins and spiritual lands that appeared in the early stage of spiritual recovery are also very similar to those temporary rivers that appeared in the desert due to abnormal rainstorms, and the associated oases. After only a few months, it was gone...

Of course, for Akiyama Megumi, who has only obtained a visa for half a year, it is already very good to have such a [temporary spirit vein].

——If she can't open up the situation in the United States and gain a firm foothold within half a year, unless she chooses to continue to stay forcibly and become an illegal immigrant, she won't even be able to stay in the United States. She can only return to Japan to study high school in despair. Can you be picky about the stability of the spiritual pulse?

After calmly thinking about it, what she was really confused at the moment was actually the source of her divine power.

"...Master Yuzao, why can you absorb the power of faith in California? Could it be that there are also your church and believers here?"

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As far as Akiyama Megumi knows, divine power comes from human belief, and only within the scope of aura recovery, belief can be fed back to reality.

However, the "oldest crumb fox" in front of Tamamo, although it is indeed very weak at the moment, still has some divine power that can be called upon.

At first, Akiyama Megumi thought that these divine powers were the "inventory from previous years" accumulated by Yuzao, and they were sealed in the killing stones made into statues.

It is roughly equivalent to the grain stored in the warehouse, once it is used up, it will be gone.

But after Akiyama Megumi succeeded in psychic communication and was taken up by Yu Zaoqian (and never got off again), she clearly felt that there were strands of faith coming from the far northwest.

Although the power of faith is extremely weak...

how to say?Just like a faucet dripping water drops "tick, tick".

Even if it is accumulated for a day, it is not enough to release a small spell such as fireball or lightning.

But the spiritual power of these beliefs, after all, is constantly replenishing the consumption of Yuzaoqian, so that the ancient fox god Yuzaoqian, and himself, the only psychic priestess under the eyes of the former great god Yuzaoqian, will not come and go. , sit and eat mountain empty.

But in this way, the problem comes:

Why in California, which is far away from Japan, there are still believers in front of Tamamo?

Could it be that besides me, there are other priestesses or priestesses who have come to California and have already built the shrine?

——This made Akiyama Megumi feel a strong sense of crisis.

Don't look at her occasional thoughts about Fox God behind her back, but if Tamazamo really abandoned herself and went to another witch...

Then, Keiko Akiyama will really cry "wow"!

What's more tragic than being a dog to a crumb fox?

Naturally, I want to be a dog but I can't!

Fortunately, this worst-case scenario never happened.

After all, she temporarily became the fox god's dog.

"...Oh? My witch, how ignorant are you that you don't know how great the god you serve is?

Why is it impossible to have my believers in this new continent on the other side of the ocean? "

There was a hint of pride in Yuzaoqian's words, "... tell me, from which direction does this power of faith come from? Where is it over there?"

"...North-northwest...there should be...San Francisco? No, the direction is a bit worse. More like the capital Sacramento?"

Akiyama Megumi turned on the compass and Google Maps functions of the phone and looked, "...In short, it's the Central Valley area, right?"

"...Then, the answer is very simple. Wherever there are Japanese people who grow rice, there is my Inari belief."

The ancient fox god replied, "...Although they can only be regarded as general believers at best, at least they are better than none at all..."

After hearing this, Qiu Shanhui tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly realized.

PS: Some readers said that with the income of Japanese migrant workers, it is not unaffordable to eat ordinary watermelons of several hundred yen a piece and bananas of [-] yen a piece. Female high school students can also earn a lot of part-time jobs money.

But the Akiyama family is not a working class in Japan, but a very poor family with no income for the elderly and children!

Generally speaking, time travelers are not the type who would give up their studies in order to work

So the little witch naturally ate badly.

Another: new book issue, ask for PY, ask for promotion.

Chapter 23, California is the Guanzhong of the United States! (Festival plus update)

Just like the mainland of the United Kingdom is divided into four main parts: Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, and the Japanese geographical concepts of East and Kansai, the Chinese generally divide so many provinces in the country into Northeast, North China, Northwest, Jiangnan, South China and other large regions are the same.

Americans also divided their land into several major regions: New England, the South, the Great Lakes, the Midwest, the Southwest, and so on.

But among them, "California" will always be singled out.

why?

Because the state of California is geographically isolated from all parts of the continental United States.

It is simply an "isolated island on land"!

It is surrounded by dense forests and deep mountains in the north, the Sierra Nevada in the east, a large desert in the southeast, Mexico in the south, and the Pacific Ocean in the west. It can be said that all directions are tightly blocked—not only on land, but also on waterways. They are basically not connected to other states.

If it wasn't for the time when the United States moved westward, it would have been after the Industrial Revolution. Otherwise, if it was the transportation capacity of the previous industrial era, if it wanted to rule this geographically remote land in Washington, the capital of the Atlantic Ocean, it would be about more than the Central Plains. It is still difficult for the dynasty to conquer Burma.

And in this isolated "land island" in the interior of California, there are stretches of rugged mountains and deserted land. At least two-thirds of the state's land cannot be inhabited by a large number of people, nor can it be developed. and construction - in addition to tree cutting and mining.

The entire territory of California can carry a large number of people, and it is really meaningful to develop. In fact, there are only three places, which correspond to the three major cities in California: the coastal small plain with Los Angeles as the core in the south, the Bay Area with San Francisco as the core in the north, and The Central Valley where the state capital Sacramento is located.

And these three cities happen to symbolize culture, technology and agriculture, and they happen to be the three trump cards that modern America relies on to stand proudly on the top of the mountain.

——The Central Valley is said to be a "valley". In fact, the area of ​​the plain is [-] square kilometers, larger than the combined Guanzhong Plain and Hedong Plain in China, and even larger than ancient Egypt, which was once known as the "Mediterranean Bread Basket". The total area of ​​the Nile Valley + Nile Delta.

Therefore, California is a miniature version of the United States, and it also has better geographical conditions than other states.

It can even be said that there is no place in the entire North American continent that has better geographical and climatic conditions than California!

Why do you say this way?

Because of its location on the west coast of the American continent and its suitable latitude, California has a Mediterranean climate that is not available in any other state in the United States.And the mountains stretching across the north and west allow California to avoid the invasion of the polar cold current.

Finally, the Coast Mountains, which stand between San Francisco and the Central Valley, also protect the Central Valley, a major agricultural region, from typhoons.

This unique geographical environment is an endless source of wealth, more precious than the gold that first drove white immigrants here!

You know, on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains of the central United States, which is moistened by the Mississippi River, seems fertile, flat and extremely rich.

However, most of the mountains in the North American continent are north-south, lacking east-west mountains, which block the cold wind of the Arctic for the vast central plain.

Therefore, the cold current from the Arctic Ocean in winter can carry a blizzard and drive straight down to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, bringing severe cold and snow disasters of minus [-] degrees Celsius to Texas.And the snow in those places north of the Gulf of Mexico is even heavier.

For example, Washington is known as the capital with the most snowfall in the world, and there are news of people digging snow caves in Boston every winter.

For the people of North America, "winter is coming" is definitely not a scene only in fantasy novels, but their daily life year after year.

In other words, although the Great Plains of central America on the banks of the Mississippi River are fertile, they are tossed back and forth by drafts, causing extreme cold, raging wind and snow, and extreme fluctuations in precipitation and temperature. Farmers who need a stable climate for farming, Shivering in the cold, miserable.

For the ancients who were weak in transforming nature and poor in disaster resistance, this kind of wind and snow was even more catastrophic like the doomsday.

——The ancient aboriginal civilizations on the Great Plains of North America are usually harvested by the terrifying super cold current every few decades to one to two hundred years. As a result, they stay in the embryonic stage for a long time and are destroyed in cycles. It has never been possible to establish a developed civilized country.

In a relatively mild and humid year, the indigenous civilizations of North America will develop rapidly and large-scale settlements will appear. However, once the climate turns bad, several consecutive severe winters and droughts will lead to the destruction of farming conditions, and the fragile early Civilization immediately declined, and the survivors became scattered fishing and hunting tribes. When the Europeans colonized North America, it just happened to catch up with another major destruction of North American indigenous civilizations, so they felt that the land was sparsely populated.

(This is also one of the original origins of the concept of long summer and long winter in "A Song of Ice and Fire", and the reaper in "Mass Effect".)

However, at about the same latitude as Texas and in the southernmost state of California, there is absolutely no danger of encountering a cold snap.

——There are no high mountains in the north of the North American Great Plains to block the cold arctic current, but in the north of California, there are mountains connected to mountains, and peaks and peaks are connected to the sky!

Because there are many mountains in the north of California, which resist the blizzard from the North Pole, the summer here is not hot, the winter is not cold, there is little rain throughout the year, and there is plenty of sunshine all year round. It is really suitable for human habitation, but the high The latitude makes it less likely to encounter typhoons.

(The latitude of California is roughly equivalent to that of northern Jiangsu and Shandong in China.)

More importantly, among the mountains of California, there is also a large, flat and fertile central valley with rich water systems, coupled with the uninterrupted sunshine and suitable temperature brought by the Mediterranean climate throughout the year. , making it a natural cradle for diversified agriculture.

The agricultural output value of California has been ranked first in the United States for many years, and it is also the main fruit producing area in the United States, which shows how amazing its agricultural strength is.

To put it bluntly, with California's stable climate, fertile land, easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack geographical environment, coupled with the shipping routes connected to the ocean, if it is in the era of cold weapons, it will definitely become the Guanzhong Plain of Qin State in the United States , has the potential to hit the Great Plains and sweep North America!

But in modern society, this advantage has been greatly reduced, but it still allows California to keep pace with New England economically.

Closer to home, because California's climate is so suitable for diversified agricultural development, in California's Central Valley, in addition to wineries and vegetable and fruit planting bases.There are also large expanses of rice fields, and it is said that the earliest rice seeds and technology were introduced from Japan.

Of course, the Japanese who grew rice were also introduced to California, and they have taken root and thrived in this land ever since.

——Well, it was the group of Japanese immigrants who were captured by the Americans and put in concentration camps during the Pacific War.

It is conceivable that they have more or less brought over the Japanese Inari belief. Even if there is no shrine built, a statue shrine will do just fine.

Since there are still a large number of Japanese immigrants and large rice fields in California, it is normal for there to be a little worship of Inari God, right?

This is why Tamamo-mae, who once played Inari God (Uga's soul god), can absorb the power of faith just after recovering in California.

After figuring out this section, the little witch Akiyama Hui suddenly couldn't help clapping her hands in secret praise, lamenting that the heritage and potential of this ancient fox god is really profound.

Even if the place where the spiritual energy recovers is in the new continent where she has never been active before, she can rely on the channel of cultural transmission to ambush her dark hand in advance.

When the spiritual energy revives in the world of great struggle, these dark hands can be activated directly!

——Compared with the birth of new gods, the revival of old gods is indeed much easier!