Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

Then, as a temporary emergency measure, a curfew was issued, authorizing the army to organize night patrols and shoot those who went out at night.

For such a simple task, the commander of the US military in the Seattle area, Colonel Daniel, the acting division commander of the No.20 Fifth Light Infantry Division "Tropical Lightning" in Hawaii, naturally did not think there was any trouble at all-compared with terrorists in the Middle East, Local thugs are not even low-level monsters.

But at the same time, from time to time, he turned his anxious eyes to the outskirts of the city, the huge World Tree not much shorter than the Space Needle.

——Hey, I hope the Pentagon will not be so stupid and impulsive, let alone declare war on the gods on the mainland...

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In the northern suburbs of Seattle, the Japanese garden at the Washington Arboretum

The dark clouds in the distance rushed in like a tide, covering the sky in an instant.Then there was heavy rain and thunder.

The humid water vapor from the Pacific Ocean drives straight in, driving away the summer heat and bringing the coolness of the sea to Seattle.

Compared with Los Angeles, which has a dry climate, the average annual rainfall in the Seattle area can reach 3600 mm. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rainy city.

In the hazy rain curtain, clear rainwater splashed down from the air, slapped the emerald green leaves of the towering giant tree, continued to pass through the layers of leaves, and fell into the Japanese-style courtyard covered by the tree canopy, hitting the roof and In the pond, let the bamboo buckets clatter, playing a melodious movement.

——A week ago, this place was still occupied by Medusa, the snake-haired banshee, and there were unlucky eggs turned into statues by petrified magic eyes all over the inside and outside.Now it is the latest residence of Akiyama's mother and daughter, as well as the residence of the "Melika Church, Goddess of the Forest and Ranger".

On the shores of the rippling Lake Washington, lush shrubs and grass surround the towering "Sacred World Tree" that blocks the sky.

In the meantime, there are green fields everywhere, full of vitality, lakes and mountains, birds and flowers...

I have to say that compared with the scene of the Safeco baseball field cramped in the urban area surrounded by reinforced concrete and asphalt roads, the Melikai Church, which has now been relocated to the Botanical Garden, is somewhat of a "sylvan god" The appearance, rather than looking like a trick.

But despite this, the Melika Church, which retreated or "turned" into the botanical garden, was still under a heavy haze.

——Unlike the Safeco Ballpark, the Washington Arboretum is an asset owned by the Seattle City Government.As long as the mayor of Seattle does not issue an eviction order, theoretically, the sacred tree of the goddess of the forest and the knight-errant, Melika, can stay here forever, and it can also be operated as a holy place for its own church.

And as the chief culprit of the riots in Seattle, the mayor, who just made a big mess, has no intention of going to war with God.

Facing the messy city, the city government is still looking forward to the healing magic of the Church of Melikhai, which will provide Seattle with a new economic growth point!

But the problem is that the city government can only provide a shelter for the goddess Melika, but it cannot bear the pressure from a higher level for her.

In fact, the mayor didn't seem to want to support Ms. Xue'e, but just gave her this land.

- Wizards of the Coast's IP copyright patent lawsuit against the goddess of the forest and the ranger, Melika, is still continuing in an orderly manner;

The owner of the Safeco Baseball Stadium is still claiming compensation from Akiyama Megumi's cheap mother, demanding that she be responsible for the baseball stadium that was crushed by the sacred tree;

In addition, the American Medical Association also came to join in the fun, announcing that it would sue Akiyama Megumi's cheap mother for practicing medicine illegally.

Just now, several guests from New York and Washington, representing pharmaceutical giants and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, visited Megumi Akiyama's cheap mother, Yuki Akiyama, the voter of the forest goddess Merika, and spoke a lot of bossy and arrogant words. rude.

Therefore, this ultimatum-like meeting naturally broke up amidst the choking smell of gunpowder.

Until these villains from the east coast got in their cars and left, Akiyama Megumi's cheap mother was still sulking in the house.

"...Damn! Damn! Damn! Pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck are all cannibals, but even the federal government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a rogue. That Fauci The benevolent old man really thinks of me as his maid?"

Akiyama Yukie was wearing a kimono, knelt on the tatami in a non-standard posture, and said angrily, "...don't even talk about the treatment, just let me report to the CDC? Let him do it for this old thing. Volunteer as a volunteer? How big of a face does he think he has?"

The little witch Megumi Akiyama, who had watched the entire meeting before, couldn't help curling her lips when she saw the cheap mother's incompetence and fury.

However, the attitude of the few vicious guests just now, as if "I'll eat you", really makes people angry at the first sight.

Especially Yuki Akiyama's former colleague, the legal counsel of Wizards of the Coast, a certain barrister wearing a high-end handmade suit and gold-rimmed glasses, directly demanded that Yuki Akiyama immediately return the stolen company property, and do Compensation—in other words, they did not regard the goddess Melikai as a god at all, but insisted that she is the company's property like cattle and horses!It can be said that it is so blasphemy that it cannot be more blasphemy.

To be honest, Hui Akiyama was surprised that this guy was able to go back alive instead of being strangled to death by vines and buried under a tree for fertilizer.

There is also a representative of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Korean-born student sent by Dr. Fauci, who also has his nostrils upturned. He put on a tone like a master ordering a slave, and directly asked Akiyama Yuki to bring her "illegal religious group" to the Washington went to report, overdue and so on...

If we say that although the US government in the last century was overbearing and overbearing, it was also unambiguous and generous when it was time to pay for it.

Well, the current U.S. officials already want this, that, and everything, but at the same time they don’t pull out anything, and they don’t want to pay for anything.

In short, at present, the U.S. officials want others to work voluntarily, but they are so stingy that they refuse to pay any compensation. , Scolding you every day to show your superiority.

For example, Grandpa Fauci, who built the U.S. disease control system in the past and is now a medical consultant at the White House, sent his Korean student to send a letter to Ms. Akiyama Yukie, saying that she hoped that she could help the U.S. Make more contributions to the cause of epidemic prevention.

Unexpectedly, when I opened it, it was full of threats, which almost made Ms. Akiyama Xuee explode.

——It turned out that Dr. Fauci was not being polite, but really ordered Ms. Akiyama Yukie to come over to listen to him and volunteer to work and contribute!

As for compensation and remuneration, of course there is no such thing, and according to the tone of the letter, she might have to deal with her afterwards!

Is this a begging attitude?This is the attitude of the cat playing with the mouse, okay?

"...Mom, you have been in the United States for so many years, don't you understand? This is the typical style of American upper class!"

Akiyama Megumi snapped her fingers and said, "...Arrogant, arrogant, with a high-spirited temper, who thinks he has the best skills, and makes troubles everywhere with excess self-confidence all day long - he will take the credit and brag about himself when he succeeds. , I didn’t make any achievements, throwing the blame everywhere, assigning others..."

"...Of course I know this, but shouldn't they beg me for medical treatment? Why do they have the attitude of 'give me a chance' instead?"

Ms. Akiyama Yukie was still confused, "...don't even give me a legal license, but ask me to work voluntarily? What does this mean?"

"...Mom, you underestimate people's greed too much—if they don't make you a criminal, how can they go whoring for nothing!"

Megumi Akiyama rolled his eyes, "... Let me tell you something familiar, you know the yakuza gang in Japan, right? It sounds very cruel and wealthy at first glance, but it's actually just raised by the bigwigs in the political and business circles Running dogs not only have to do dirty work, but also have to be blamed, plus they have to cook.

Therefore, the CDC and pharmaceutical giants in the United States also have the same intentions. On the one hand, they want to get the healing magic bestowed by the goddess Melikai; In order to control you - that's how the FBI and CIA recruit informants, otherwise where would they get so many gangsters to engage in various illegal transactions and set up their own small coffers?

In this way, they can order you at will without paying anything.As long as you are not arrested, it is considered a reward.

Hehe, maybe they still want to share the donations raised by the Forest Goddess Church through preaching and healing!

It’s like those evil police who take black and white, collect protection money every month from brothel bustards, human traffickers, and drug dealers..."

"...Are you going to use us as a Yakuza organization?! Do they think I'm Al Capone who can be put in jail as long as a pawn from the IRS comes out? What do they think of God?" Ms. Akiyama Yukie was stunned, and then she clenched her fist and knocked on the tatami mat and shouted.

"...Hawk dog! I can see it, those big shots are boiling eagles!"

The nine-tailed white fox jumped out in the form of its own body, squatting on the coffee table and eating beef jerky as a pastime, and said lazily, "...in the north of China, on the grassland outside the Great Wall, those nomads have loved it since ancient times. One activity: boil the eagle.

The eagle has a ferocious temperament. If you want it to obey orders, you need to wear its wild nature first, so that it can become a good helper for hunters.

For the ruler of this country, the gods who suddenly appeared with the recovery of aura were a group of wild eagles.

They should know that their power is limited, and it is impossible to destroy all gods and be enemies of all gods and demons.At the same time, they want to domesticate a group of gods who obey them, help them expel and suppress those disobedient evil gods and monsters, and intimidate those foolish people who are about to move.

Thus in the coming new era, they will continue to maintain their supreme and unshakable dominance.

Therefore, they will take advantage of the fact that the gods have just arrived and are still relatively weak, and will use various or legitimate or despicable means to launch PUA against any gods who seem easy to manipulate, and erect an invincible The image, knocking down the seemingly powerful gods again and again, so that the gods can no longer give birth to the heart of challenge... Their ultimate goal is to turn the gods into falcons and watchdogs at their own disposal. "

The ancient fox god said, "...In the past 4000 years, I have seen a lot of such eagle-boiling routines—no matter what era or country the ruling class has, there are many people who have such excess self-confidence. The guy who uses God like a dog..."

"...Well, even if they really turn us into a criminal gang, can they arrest the Forest Goddess and put her in prison?"

Laura, the leader of the vegetarian group "Queen of Beans" who was sitting next to her, was stunned for a while. She was just a popular chef who made tofu dishes in a vegetarian restaurant. She was elected as the first president of the Seattle Commune. The leader just hit by mistake, a blind cat bumped into a dead mouse.

Now suddenly faced with such a brutal high-level game, Laura's brain suddenly felt a little inadequate.

"...of course God cannot be arrested, in fact, under normal circumstances, the police and the FBI would not send people to arrest."

Megumi Akiyama said, "...But as long as the Forest Goddess Church is classified as an illegal criminal gang, it will be restricted in all aspects in its development.

Well, now, they have made a move, first using legal weapons to fight civil wars, and Congress and the courts are on their side.

Mother, are you planning to fight a lawsuit with them that is almost certain to lose, and put your slim hope on the fairness of American law?Or do you think it doesn't matter if the Forest Goddess Church is turned into an illegal religious group, so why not just get a tattoo and become the head of the underworld? "

However, after hearing her daughter's sarcastic words with guns and sticks, Akiyama Megumi's cheap mother calmed down and replied with a smile:

"... Huihui, we are priests, why should we act according to the rules of mortals? God's troubles must be solved by God's means!

Our lord has just issued an oracle, our kindness is not weak and deceitful, since turning in is useless, we can only ask for tactical guidance (ask for help).

Don't they think they have legal weapons and want to subdue the gods by law?

Hehe, although my lord does not have the priesthood of law, other gods do!

I will hold a ceremony tomorrow to summon the goddess of law to descend!Take the legislative power directly!

Hmph, how dare you label my lord's church as an illegal organization?We will label them an illegal government!

At that time, we will have to see, who should beg for mercy?Who will give who a chance to kneel down and be a dog? "

After hearing these cruel words from the cheap mother, Akiyama Hui couldn't help being startled, and immediately looked at the cheap mother with admiration.

Well, indeed, God’s problems should be solved by supernatural means. Who has the patience to tell you to use legal means?

The only question is... is the Goddess of Law really that easy to summon?

Chapter 170, July in America

In the United States in early July, the hot and dry air was filled with the taste of price hikes.

From the east coast to the west coast, from Alaska to Florida, the entire United States is trapped in a "rise".

——The paralysis of the two major port cities of Los Angeles and Seattle caused the throughput of container terminals in the United States to plummet by half.

As a result, it is difficult for cheap goods from overseas to enter the US market in a timely manner, and they are stuck outside the transportation bottleneck, while American consumers welcome the price increase.

Due to the impact of the epidemic, a large number of truck drivers died of illness or took sick leave. It was temporarily difficult to find replacements, and the domestic logistics in the United States also tended to be blocked. Millions of logistics and transportation workers fell ill or left their jobs. How to fill the capacity gap in the supply chain?

In addition, due to the lack of a large number of skilled labor caused by the tragic epidemic, as well as the difficulty in transporting agricultural products caused by the suspension of logistics, various production capacities in the United States have also declined sharply. Empty supermarket shelves in the city.

Added to this year's crazy printing of 16 trillion U.S. dollars... The number of commodities has dropped sharply while the money supply has skyrocketed. Can this price not skyrocket?

Moreover, this is not something that can be adjusted by any monetary policy - green dollar bills can indeed be bought in large quantities in overseas countries, but the problem is that the port is paralyzed, logistics is blocked, and imported goods cannot be shipped into the US market... What's the use of hoarding more cheap goods?

All in all, from June to July, the entire United States ushered in the fastest price increase since World War II.

Whether it is those who continue to self-isolate at home to prevent the epidemic, or those who no longer wear masks, they all feel the rapid rise in the cost of living.

——The price of food is rising, the gas cost of the car is rising, the rent and utility bills are all rising...and they are going up all over the place!

In New York, everyone complains that the money in their hands is becoming less and less valuable, and the goods in the supermarket are ridiculously expensive: beef that used to cost $11 a pound has now risen to $40 a pound, and cheap shirts that originally cost $40, Turn over, it has risen to 80 US dollars; a large trash can of 70 US dollars has risen to 130 US dollars, and the price of gasoline per gallon has increased by 3 US dollars compared with the beginning of June, which has doubled in just one month.

Those "dollar stores" that cater to the poor and the middle class have almost lost sight of products that only sell for one dollar, and have been forced to change to "five-dollar stores" and "ten-dollar stores". goods.

——The more prices soar and the currency depreciates, the more people rush to buy and hoard goods, lest they will suffer big losses if they buy things late.

As a result, New Yorkers not only took out their meager savings, but also maxed out all their credit cards and used them to buy everything from cans to toilet paper-only expensive and unpalatable artificial meat. Not moving -- making supermarkets and stores, which are already difficult to purchase, even more overwhelmed.

As a result, after being sold out, the owner of the supermarket could only post photos of various products on the shelves, pretending that the shelves in the supermarket were still full.

In addition, the price of eggs has increased by 400%, the price of butter has increased by 200%, the price of flour has increased by 80%, and the price of electricity has increased by 50%. The average price of the restaurant menu has only increased by 40%. They are rapidly decreasing, causing customers to complain about not having enough to eat, but the amount of tips requested by the waiters has greatly increased, and the minimum standard tip is to receive 20% of the meal fee - before, only 15% was received.

The middle class in New York is surprised to find that they now have to shell out at least thousands of dollars for a meal at a slightly more upscale restaurant!

And beauty-loving New York girls are even more painful to see that hair can be done for $120 in the past, but now it costs $[-] to do hair!

——Because workers in the service industry have a lot of contact with people, it is difficult to maintain social distance, and the probability of contracting the COVID virus is high. Nowadays, a large number of workers fall ill and die suddenly or are scared to close their doors and stay at home, and the rest risk their lives to continue Those who opened the business, why don't they take the opportunity to charge a super high price?

Guests, please don't think it's too expensive, maybe one day I will fall ill and go to the hospital, no matter how much money I earn, won't I be scoured by the hospital?

In short, it is visible to the naked eye that the whole line is rising, everything is rising, only wages are not rising—or it seems to be rising, but it cannot keep up with inflation.

So what if someone finds that no matter how hard they budget, they can't get by?Naturally, I can only commit crimes.

In the past month, not only has the frequency of zero-dollar purchases in major cities across the United States increased sharply, many poor and crazy Americans have even started picking up trains everywhere, jumping directly on the train to grab express packages, and setting up roadblocks Those who derailed the train—all turned into railway guerrillas!

I don't know if this development continues, will there be new era Pirates of the Caribbean?

However, New York on the East Coast is far from the most inflationary place.In contrast, prices in San Francisco have risen even more outrageously. The local 93-octane gasoline has risen to $9 a gallon, and Laoganma hot sauce from the other side of the ocean sells for $10 a can and is still out of stock everywhere.

What's even more outrageous is that someone bought a car for $[-] three years ago and can sell it for $[-] today-if you don't look at inflation, it means that cars are like red wine It needs to be hoarded, and second-hand cars can be sold for a lot more than new cars...

Well, some people on Twitter are really complaining, why didn't they think of hoarding the car and waiting for the price to increase to make money!

Of course, the most outrageous thing is the housing prices in San Francisco - because of the catastrophes that happened in Los Angeles and Seattle successively, millions of refugees from Los Angeles and Seattle were attacked from north to south, and suddenly poured into the relatively calm and prosperous San Francisco. As a result, it is hard to find a house in San Francisco in an instant.

After all, when these outsiders came to San Francisco, unless they were poor enough to sleep on the streets, they would all have to find a house to live in, right?

In just one month after the Los Angeles earthquake, the average rent in various neighborhoods of San Francisco directly increased by five to eight times due to the impact of the refugee wave, and the room prices of hotels and hotels increased by up to twenty times. , so that many original tenants and residents are completely unbearable.

As a result, on the one hand, a large number of out-of-towners flocked to San Francisco for refuge, and on the other hand, the local poor were driven out of their homes and displaced.

——Originally, there was the government's "Prohibition of Eviction of Tenants", which harmed the interests of landlords to relieve tenants, so that the poor in San Francisco who could not pay the rent could continue to stay in the house.But on July 3st, as soon as the above-mentioned ban expired, the San Francisco law enforcement agencies mobilized collectively, driving [-] people out of their houses and onto the streets in one day... Afterwards, according to the law of cracking down on homeless people, the police took no one who could find the next The people who lived there were arrested and thrown into prison.

It is estimated that the number of inmates in California prisons this summer is expected to exceed the 300 million mark, and the private prison industry is booming.

In addition to San Francisco, housing prices in major cities across the western United States - Las Vegas, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City - are all soaring due to the impact of the refugee influx in Los Angeles and Seattle.Due to the good law and order in Salt Lake City, the increase in housing prices is also jaw-dropping. Even a small urban apartment of 80 square meters can be sold for a high price of [-] US dollars, which almost scares buyers crazy.

However, just as housing prices in North America are soaring, the construction industry is extremely abnormally withered, and there are unfinished construction sites everywhere.

Because, as a labor-intensive industry, the construction industry, which requires a lot of heavy manual labor, has been hit hard by the "Corona" plague-a large number of experienced engineers and skilled foremen aged 60 or [-] have fallen ill and died.There are also many ordinary construction workers who have also become weak, lethargic and weak after recovering from the disease, and can no longer engage in construction work.

For construction sites, it is normal for a few people to leave their jobs every week, but if more than half of them leave in a month, how can it go on?

Therefore, in order to maintain the operation of the engineering team, the managers had to recruit a large number of inexperienced and unqualified illegal immigrants, and even hired prisoners from prisons to enrich the construction site... However, due to the sharp decline in the quality of the labor force, the accident rate increased sharply and suffered heavy losses—— Almost more than worth the candle.