Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

Chapter 75: Earthquake!

June [-] at [-] p.m., Los Angeles, USC

In front of the artistic red brick building, on the stage illuminated by spotlights, an exotic "Song of the Soul" was played to the end. Megumi Akiyama and the other three witches who had finished dancing held fans, sabers, Yubi and Kagura Ling walked off the stage with slight sweat on their foreheads.

I have to say that in order to dance this dance well, they really put in 12 points of energy and even used cheating methods.

——Don’t think that it’s easy to dance because the rhythm of Japanese dance is slow. It takes a lot of hard work just to hold the fan and knife in the correct posture, and to swing the fan and knife well, steadily and smoothly In addition, when dancing, the lower body must be practiced to be very stable.

Megumi Akiyama herself was originally only at the level of an amateur three-legged cat, let alone the other three foreign girls who are just beginners.

Now they can dance well, thanks to the improvement of their physique and wisdom instilled in them by the ancient fox god Yuzao.In addition to the unique charm of the fox fairy, this song "Song of the Soul", which is the first live debut of the fox ear witches, can be used as the finale of the concert.

However, since this time the blessing concert was held online and there were no audiences at the scene, Megumi Akiyama did not know the response of the performance for the time being.

Although you can watch netizens' comments on your mobile phone, the concert has come to an end anyway, and Akiyama Megumi is going to wait until the end.

When Akiyama Megumin and the others returned to the lawn, the loud and clear symphony sounded on the stage again:

Grand, solemn, mysterious, and with a trace of indescribable horror.

——Here, I really have to admire the terrible brains of those geeks at the University of Southern California: the next show after the end of "Song of the Soul" by the fox-eared witches is also the last of the entire blessing concert The program turned out to be a chorus "Ode to the Old Ones"!

And the male and female students who sang on the stage were all wearing pointed masks and white robes. At first glance, they thought they were cult members...

In fact, they do each wear the Old Seal badge on their chests.

Hey, it ended with such a Cthulhu thing. Is this concert at the University of Southern California praying for blessings or praying for disasters?

Especially at this juncture when the tide of spiritual recovery is intensifying, and the Cthulhu myth may come true at any time...

Well, in fact, part of it has already come true.

Could it be that these people can't wait to welcome the return of the stars and feel the indescribable horror?

Well, I remember that in the USC School of Film, there are indeed such a group of guys who have no limits to death... Otherwise, how can they be called artists?

The little witch Akiyama Hui curled her lips in disbelief, and at the same time turned around and walked to the open-air bar next to her, and asked for a glass of champagne from the college student volunteer who served as the bartender, and brought a glass to each of the other three girls by the way—although according to the American standard Legally, she's not yet old enough to drink, but in a place like Southern California that advocates avant-garde and deviates from the past, it's really nothing for a little girl to drink a few glasses of wine, and no one takes it seriously.

How do you say that in America?

You're not a real party girl until you've gotten drunk and been high for days and nights, pregnant with someone's baby!

When Kei Akiyama clinked glasses with Valentina, Sonia and Dolores, everyone on the stage also sang:

"...Looking at the sky, high above.

The time has come for the stars to return.

The past is gone, and the end is approaching.

The seal has been broken, the Old Ones have awakened! ..."

The singing voice is clear and bright, with a kind of shuddering mystery.

And the students below who had finished their performance also booed one after another, twisting their buttocks and yelling, "Yeah, yip, Mr. Ke made sugar."

——Anyone who knows the myth of Cthulhu knows what this sentence means.

But at this moment, Akiyama Megumi's face suddenly changed, and the alarm bells rang in his heart, as if he had a premonition of some ominous sign.

At the same time, the other three girls also realized that something was wrong. They exchanged glances with each other, and no longer cared about concealing and secrets, they mobilized their spiritual power together, activated their spiritual vision, and let the furry fox ears and fox tail start all over again. The top and bottom of the skirt popped out.

Fortunately, under the dim light outdoors at night, no one else noticed the mutation on their bodies.

The next moment, Akiyama Hui was stunned to see, in the far northwest, that towering fountain of spiritual power.

At the same time, she also felt that the spirit veins under her apartment were being drained and disappeared rapidly.

Relying on the mysterious connection between himself and Buster, the shikigami black cat, which has not been severed, Akiyama Hui immediately understood what was going on.

"...Baga! While we're not here, that dead cat wants to tear down the house!"

"... Isn't this cat too dishonest? It eats ours, uses ours, and even rides on our heads!"

"...Once you catch it, you must stuff it into the running cage, and you won't let it out until it turns into a skeleton cat!"

"...and Serena will also be arrested and tortured severely, at least until she can't get out of bed for a month!"

Accompanied by the angry shouts of the girls, the ancient fox god Yuzao also uttered a vicious roar deep in the soul of Akiyama Megumi:

"...I'm so angry, I'm going to smash the fat cat's head and use it to make soup! Wait...wrong! Did the ground shake?"

At this moment, the choir on the stage was still singing, but someone in the audience noticed the liquid in the wine glass shaking and rippling.

However, more people were waving light sticks and calling along with the music, but they didn't react for a while.

But after a few seconds, the ground shook more and more.

Then, the spotlight hanging above the stage also began to shake, making a crisp sound, as if it was about to fall at any moment.

The stage itself creaked as well, and the college student who was singing suddenly lost his footing and fell down on the wooden stage.

Another photographer who was caught off guard was also crushed under the overturned tripod.

Everyone in the audience finally sensed that something was wrong, and began to look around with suspicious eyes.

With a "pop", the singing stopped abruptly, and the lights disappeared instantly, leaving everyone in darkness.

power cut!

Someone anxiously took out a flashlight and shone it on the surrounding buildings, and then saw in horror that a large network of cracks was rapidly appearing on the wall.

So, on the USC campus where the power was cut off at night and the darkness was dark, a hysterical high-pitched howl broke out: "...earthquake!!"

Next, in addition to the howling of men and women, there was also a loud bang of buildings collapsing...

PS: With the recovery of aura, the disaster that will break out is not just a plague.

Although the disaster occurred in the western United States, the scope of its impact is not limited to the United States.

Under the division of labor of globalization, half of the United States will be turned upside down, which will inevitably lead to turmoil on the entire planet.

Chapter 76: Los Angeles Earthquake

Once again, Ms. Freya, assistant to the mayor of Los Angeles, who worked overtime until late at night, sat in her Tesla electric car, lowered the car window almost mentally, and looked at the luxury high-rise apartment building she rented in front of her. During the earthquake, it swayed left and right, as if dancing a rabbit dance.

Although the earthquake resistance of the building structure can still stand the test, the glass doors and windows shattered and fell off in the shaking and vibration.

As a result, broken glass fell like snowflakes one after another, and under the illumination of the red moon, it reflected bloody red light like crystal.

At the same time, the houses, trees and street lamps on both sides of the street also shook, shattered and collapsed in the earthquake. The electric spark turned a stray dog ​​that couldn't avoid it into roast dog meat.

Although Los Angeles in June is still very hot even at night, Ms. Freya's heart is cold.

"...First the plague, then the zombies, and now the earthquake... What's next? Forest fires?"

She was talking to herself like this, and then she was even more devastated to see from the mirror that a certain street corner not far behind was bursting with white light, making a deafening noise, and a ball of tumbling flames rushed into the air and splashed all around The next shower of meteors and fire... It seems that the gas station exploded?

A few unlucky ones who couldn't escape were burnt into people of fire by the fuel poured in from the sky, rolling on the ground in pain, and howling horribly.

Well, it really caught fire!What is this?Is it the end of the world?

Remember today is June [-]th?This is really an unlucky and unlucky day...

Ms. Freya was thinking drowsily, but her hands and feet were very agile. She immediately opened the car door and jumped out with her handbag in her arms. At the same time, she jumped out of the Tesla electric car, as well as her private secretary who drove her. The little black girl Christina who immigrated from Jamaica.

Well, it is said to be a little black girl, but in fact Christina is a little black brother who has undergone a castration operation, and her scientific name is "African-American refugee, transgender, feminist activist, environmental protection pioneer, depression, disabled person who has experienced persecution" - in In California, where the white left is in power, recruiting this man and woman can reduce a large amount of taxes, so Ms. Freya endured the strong body odor of this guy, and reluctantly kept him, her, it, and it by her side .

——Anyway, Ms. Freya herself is also a type with quite lush body hair, and her body smell is also very strong. If you don't use perfume and deodorant, I'm afraid it smells no better than Christina, a transgender black skin. .

Usually Freya's delicate OL professional female makeup in front of the camera can only be made up by makeup and cosmetic surgery.

What's more, the female sultan in power is accompanied by black eunuchs, which is a glorious tradition of the "Green Rome" of the Ottoman Empire.

As a new-age American strong woman who aspires to gain power, how could Freya not use this old rule?

In short, Christina followed Freya into the open space while handing over her mobile phone, "...Ma'am, call! It's from the Earthquake Bureau!"

"...Earthquake Bureau? Well, it's time for them to call! This time they're going to pay for it."

Ms. Freya found an empty lawn and squatted down, while taking the mobile phone from the hand of "little black girl" Christina. It hit the Tesla electric car she just bought this year.

And the old red brick building, like dough, was twisted and deformed sharply, and the people inside rushed out of the doors and windows to escape.

There is also a car that was thrown directly into the air by the shaking ground, then crashed, caught fire, exploded, and burned into a bright fireball.

Looking up, the sky over this urban area is already cloudy, blocking the moonlight, and the entire night sky is shrouded in gray dust and smoke.

Hey, with the intensity of today's major earthquake, can the Earthquake Bureau still settle the claim?Shouldn't it be going bankrupt?

No, even if the Earthquake Administration is going to go bankrupt, I have to pay for my car first... She thought so, and took the phone at the same time.

Wait, isn't the Earthquake Administration a government agency?Why should I be responsible for insurance claims?

No way, although the California Earthquake Administration is called a bureau, it is actually an insurance agency, but at the same time it is not considered a company, but a suture monster...

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——Like the Japanese archipelago on the other side of the ocean, California is also located on the Pacific Rim volcanic earthquake belt, with many geological faults. Nine of the top ten earthquakes in American history occurred here. However, California has a developed economy and a dense population. Major earthquakes can cause huge losses.

Among them, the most famous in history is the 1906-magnitude earthquake in San Francisco in 8.3 (the one at the beginning of the "Famine" game), which caused more than 6000 deaths and 30 homeless. The fire caused by the earthquake burned three In three days and nights, the whole city was almost destroyed.

You know, San Francisco in 1906 was far from developing into a metropolis with a population of one million.

In 1994, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake occurred in Los Angeles. At that time, dozens of people were killed and nearly 300 people were injured, but the direct economic losses caused exceeded [-] billion U.S. dollars. Converted into the current currency value, I am afraid that it will be worth hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars. Count: A whole bunch of insurance companies went bankrupt because of it!

Unfortunately, this is not the end.

According to the analysis of scientists, due to the compression of the Pacific plate on the North American plate, there will definitely be more earthquakes in California in the future,

Therefore, there is such a legendary treasure as the California Earthquake Administration.

——Because of the frequent occurrence of earthquakes in California, insurance companies are either unwilling to undertake business for this purpose, or greatly increase earthquake insurance premiums. As a result, the increase in land prices and the enthusiasm of real estate developers for building houses have been seriously affected, and the government’s efforts have also been seriously affected. land income.

Therefore, in 1995, California passed a mandatory bill, stipulating that all insurance companies operating housing insurance in California must provide earthquake insurance at the same time, and also limit the amount of insurance premiums to facilitate real estate development.

But this kind of mandatory apportionment, isn't it just the government throwing the pot and making the insurance company bankrupt!

It's just like during the epidemic later, the US government stipulated that landlords are not allowed to collect rent to help the poor.

As a result, this bill in 1995 was strongly resisted by insurance companies. After some games between political and business elites, a new agency was finally created in California - the California Earthquake Bureau: This thing sounds like a government that predicts and prevents earthquakes The agency is actually an earthquake insurance agency.

In short, when making money in normal times, the insurance company will share the profits with dividends, and let the government cover the bottom line when there is a catastrophe and cannot pay the compensation.

It's like when Wall Street is messing around the world, there are always Fed nuclear-powered money printing machines and Pentagon brand maces standing behind.

——The Westernization Enterprises in the Qing Dynasty were "managed by officials supervised by merchants", and the US Earthquake Administration was "run by merchants supervised by officials", which shows the purity of their capitalist spirit.

As a result, the Seismological Bureau has mastered California's earthquake insurance market with a scale of more than one trillion U.S. dollars, which can be called a fat gap among the fat gaps.

Of course, the responsibilities and rights in this world are generally equal. Since the California Earthquake Administration has received so much insurance premium income, it must also bear the responsibility.

Therefore, although the California Earthquake Administration is essentially an insurance agency, it is indeed doing geological monitoring work. Every day, every night, every moment, there are countless latest monitoring equipment, which are closely monitoring the land under this land. All fluctuations.

——There are many, many interests involved, and it is not worth mentioning to deploy a geological monitoring system worth tens of millions of dollars.

Therefore, as soon as the earthquake broke out on the night of June [-], in the monitoring room of the Los Angeles branch of the California Earthquake Administration, the originally stable straight line on the big screen suddenly fluctuated greatly, and a deafening sharp sound sounded. The alarm flashed a dazzling red light.

What's more terrible is that even sitting in the monitoring room, you can already clearly feel the violent tremors of the ground.

The staff on duty, who was half-frightened to death, hurriedly used the computer to calculate the magnitude, detect the epicenter, and estimate the scope of the damage. At the same time, they quickly called and contacted major financial companies on Wall Street-California has the largest population and the most valuable industry in the United States, Los Angeles With Hollywood, it has a world-class influence.If there is a big earthquake in Los Angeles, the financial markets of the whole world will be shaken.

As soon as such bad news comes out, the exchange rate of the US dollar will fall, gold will rise, and the stocks of all listed companies in California will also fall.

The S&P index will definitely fall, and the Nasdaq index will plummet!There are also some stocks that will be smashed in advance by interested people!

Of course, it was more than nine o'clock in the evening, and the New York stock market did not open.

But it doesn't matter, there are still many places on the other side of the world that are still bathed in sunlight.

In today's global market, every minute and every second, there are stocks and futures somewhere that can be bought and sold. With his eyes fixed on the screen, he smashed out a huge amount of sell orders!

These people are jackals in human skin. What they love most is chasing endless wealth and wanting to get other people's money into their own pockets.

In this era of global villages and globalization, the occurrence of every great disaster is always accompanied by the transfer of huge wealth!

The gap of just 1 minute in the speed of information acquisition means the abyss between sudden wealth and liquidation!

It wasn't until the Wall Street call was over that the Seismological Bureau thought of contacting Ms. Freya, the mayor's assistant who actually acted as the mayor of Los Angeles.