Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

I believe that those who have the ability to fly to the United States to treat diseases these years should not even understand this bit of worldly wisdom?

Of course, it's the same with Yoyo - I wish you could act as brokers and introduce me more business from my hometown in Asia! "

She turned her head to look at the nervous Asakura Yu next to her, comforted her, and then stared at Ma Tong again.

"...Finally, Sister Ma Tong, if the leaders behind you can do something to help spread the belief of our Lord as the goddess of rice among the overseas Chinese and Chinese Americans in the United States, and increase the popularity of the shrine I prepared. Also on the Internet Help spread the story of my lord—for example, make a popular game animation about Shang Zhou Fengyun, in which slightly beautify the image of Empress Daji, then I believe Empress Daji will be very happy.

For example, the cartoon "Wu Geng Ji" is pretty good, my mother liked it very much, and often said that her son would really have this ability..."

"...Ah, Studio Ghibli has issued an official announcement to produce a new animated film "Tamazamae: Sad Love in the Heian Era."

Yu Asakura suddenly interjected, "...Because there are a lot of big donors who have generously invested, it is expected that it will be released by this winter!"

"...Oh, that would be awesome! Yoyo! Hope to see something as good as Inuyasha or Laputa in the Sky."

Qiu Shanhui's eyes lit up, clapped his hands and laughed, "...I will definitely watch it when the time comes, and if the filming is good, my lord will definitely reward you!"

——Japanese live-action movies, except for the special effects of fighting monsters, other costume films and urban films, no matter how exquisite the setting is and how exquisite the service is, the acting skills of the actors are still a bit exaggerated, and the lines It's also weird, and always gives people a very embarrassing feeling.

But if it is an animated movie with the same theme, it will often be able to make a good work... So unlike other countries, Japanese live-action movies are not as powerful as animated movies. Even if there are a few popular live-action movies occasionally, It is often a manga revision that has taken advantage of the popularity of anime.

Now Japan is going to release an animated film about Tamamo-mae, and the producer is still the famous Ghilip, so Megumi Akiyama is naturally looking forward to it.

"...Ahem, Huihui, although my hometown hasn't had time to prepare any animation works related to your fox god, but in Chaoge, the old capital of the Shang Dynasty in our country, we are already planning to build a 30-meter-high Daji empress. Giant statue for all to see and admire..."

Seemingly aware of a certain sense of crisis, Ma Tong glanced at the small Yu Asakura, and hurriedly picked up the conversation, saying so.

However, Akiyama Hui's reaction to Chaoge's decision to erect a statue of Empress Daji was quite indifferent. She just smiled awkwardly, but she didn't take it seriously.

——Anime and games can quickly spread all over the world through the Internet, and they can be easily seen and promoted even in the United States.

Well, even language is not a barrier: After coming to the United States, Megumi Akiyama was surprised to find that there are quite a few white people here who can understand Japanese!

It is said that one is because of the heyday golden age of Japan’s bubble economy, and Japanese culture in turn influenced the legacy of the United States (a large number of Japanese restaurants and karate training classes were opened in major cities in the United States at that time); the second is naturally because of Japan’s Anime's global siege is over.

(Even Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a place full of war and smoke, still has Japanese animation peripheral stores.)

However, in Chaoge, the old place where the Shang Dynasty perished, how can we build a colossal statue of Empress Daji to spread its influence to the United States?

Do you have to rely on international tour groups?LOL!These days, due to the impact of the "Corona" epidemic, the international tourism industry has already collapsed. The islanders of Fiji and Maldives are starving and thin because of the closure of hotels. As for the tour group between China and the United States, I don't know when it will be to recover.

Besides, even if the epidemic is over in the future and the international tourism industry recovers again, how many Americans come to China, instead of climbing the Great Wall in Beijing, seeing pandas in Sichuan, or seeing skyscrapers in Pudong in Shanghai, but going to Chaoge? Kind of out of the way to see a newly completed statue?

Therefore, in Akiyama Megumi's view, no matter how grand the scale of the colossus is or how much it costs, it will not be of much benefit to her missionary career in the United States.

It's just that no matter what the other party said, she had good intentions after all, so she could only nod in agreement with an embarrassed smile.

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In the following time, nothing special happened at the party, except that occasionally someone came to toast Akiyama Megumi.

Only at the end of the fundraising party, Megumi Akiyama took Ma Tong, Yu Asakura and Dolores, the chief bag-carrying girl, and the four of them took a group photo with "Black Widow" Scarlett Johansson and Elon Musk Photos, right as a souvenir.

——Because I have seen a lot of gods and demons from all walks of life, Akiyama Hui is familiar with taking pictures with celebrities and looks calm, but Ma Tong is very excited. I like it myself, and it's done in one go. I'm a heroine in the world of hype.

And Asakura Yu and Dolores also carried out similar operations with great vigor, except that they tweeted.

——For girls from ordinary families like them, just taking such a photo with international movie stars and business leaders is enough to be proud of the world, talk about it for a long time, and win the whole circle of friends Jealousy, envy, hate!

Finally, when the party was over and the guests dispersed, Akiyama Hui followed the governor's wife to her husband's governor's office to settle accounts and share money.

Then, Akiyama Hui discovered that the amount of money that could actually be obtained was much less than expected.

When Akiyama Megumi came out of the office dejectedly and told Ma Tong and Asakura Yuichi, the two were quite surprised.

"...the total donations raised was $200 million, but the party itself cost $100 million?"

Ma Tong widened his eyes and shouted, "...the real income is only 100 million? It's just a party, how can you spend so much money?"

"...No way, the value of the US dollar is depreciating so much now! From the prices of drinks and ingredients to venue fees and labor costs, everything is skyrocketing."

Megumi Akiyama shrugged, "...stars and Victoria's Secret supermodels are also very expensive to appear on the stage, so all the money raised is wasted."

——As a little common sense, those beautiful female stars at charity parties are often paid to act as the atmosphere group, and they will not donate money.

Therefore, there are often female stars who attend charity dinners. Afterwards, they only remember that the red carpet is very red and the chandeliers are very bright, but they even forget the theme of charity.

In short, during this grand fundraising party, people in the entertainment industry basically didn't donate much, and some people had to pay their wages in reverse.

Next, hiring so many waiters, bartenders and chefs, as well as all kinds of expensive ingredients, drinks and decorations, everything is a waste of money.

What's more terrible is that the logistics in the United States are not smooth, the ports are paralyzed, the roads are congested, and the prices of high-end fresh ingredients have risen sharply...

The governor’s wife who hosts the party is extravagant. She not only chooses the best in everything, but also counts her newly bought jewelry and dresses into the cost account of the fundraising party. —— I have seen "Screaming Queen" Everyone knows that charity dinners in the upper class of the United States are mostly like this.

A considerable part or even most of the so-called "charitable money" raised at the charity dinner was consumed by the luxurious party itself, and turned into the costumes and jewelry worn by the ladies, the delicious food and wine at the party, and the hired money. Come to act as the handsome men and beautiful women of the atmosphere group and so on.

Well, the "Harper's Bazaar" in China is actually similar. The so-called charity is just a gimmick.

Fortunately, no matter what, this fundraising party finally earned 100 million. Akiyama Megumi and the governor and his wife split half and half, and they could get 50.

——According to the normal process, this donation has to go through a lot of procedures before it can be released, and it cannot go directly to Akiyama Hui.

However, out of admiration for God, the governor's wife first put in $50 and handed it over to Megumi Akiyama in advance.

Looking down at the check in her hand, the little witch Akiyama Hui couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Forget it, he just made a show and didn't do anything to get $50, which is not bad.

$50 is $50!At least that should be enough to buy an RV.

It can be used on the next trip from California to the rice-growing area of ​​​​the Mississippi River Valley to investigate the site selection of Inari Shrine.

——Because of the need to investigate the direction of the spiritual vein and the situation of rice planting, most of the next journey of Kei Akiyama and his party will have to wander around in the countryside of the United States. It is very likely that they will encounter a situation where they cannot find a hotel to stay. Much more comfortable than pitching a tent.

As for the cheap motels that are common in small places in the United States, they are notoriously filthy places, and Megumi Akiyama doesn't want to live in that kind of place at all.

So, Megumin Akiyama ordered a few young girls with bags to use their mobile phones to make a travel guide and design a self-driving tour route—the end point is tentatively set at Dolores' hometown, Greenhill Township, Louisiana.While picking up the tablet computer, he began to look for a favorite touring car.

But after watching the car trade advertisements on the Internet for a while, Akiyama Megumi's face became more and more ugly.

"...Damn, the prices in the United States have really skyrocketed! Half a million dollars is not enough to buy a decent RV! Do you want to buy a second-hand car?"

Chapter 199: Nomadic America on Wheels

Midsummer July is the day when the temperature soars and the heat is unbearable.

In the United States in July this year, the situation is even more complicated. Not only the temperature has soared, but also the price and the death toll.

There is no way. On the one hand, the two major ports in the Pacific Ocean (Seattle and Los Angeles) are paralyzed, and the New York Port on the Atlantic side is on strike. The national container throughput in the United States has plummeted by 70%. It is difficult to import overseas daily consumer goods, and domestic commodity circulation and transportation It is also becoming more and more obstructed in the epidemic.

On the one hand, the nuclear-powered money printing machine of the United States is fully activated, and it has already printed 20 trillion US dollars in just three or four months...

According to the White House spokesperson, if the epidemic does not improve, the total national debt of the United States is likely to break through the trillion-dollar mark!

Therefore, on the one hand, the currency is being issued indiscriminately, and on the other hand, commodities are increasingly scarce. It is a wonder that the price of goods in the United States does not rocket to the sky!

Of course, in this round of unprecedented inflation, the price increases of various commodities in different regions of the United States are not even. The price has even plummeted.

Specific to each state, the prices of each state are also uneven. Generally speaking, the farther away from the place of production, the more difficult the transportation and the more expensive the prices.

——With the road and rail transportation becoming increasingly paralyzed, the unified national market of the United States of America is also gradually disintegrating and disappearing.

But no matter what, in this magical year, except for banknotes that are worthless, other commodities are profitable investments.

For example, in the automobile trading market, it turns out that second-hand cars are more expensive than new cars, and automobiles have become an investment commodity.

——Someone bought a car for $[-] three years ago, sold it after driving it for so long, and sold it for $[-]...

So much so that some netizens ridiculed on Twitter that they will dig cellars and store cars like red wine in the future, because cars, like red wine, get better with age!

Of course, this matter is essentially due to the contrast caused by the sharp depreciation of the US dollar, and the price increase of the same new car will only be more severe.

In short, when Megumi Akiyama held a check for 50 US dollars and wanted to buy a more comfortable RV, he was surprised to find that the budget was insufficient!

"...What the hell is going on here? Why are big luxury cars so expensive all of a sudden? Entegra's luxury A-class cars (buses that can accommodate ten people) have gone up to $80 each! And there is no In stock, you have to wait in line for two months!!!”

Akiyama Megumi said dumbfounded, "... Isn't the economic situation very bad now? Why are so many people spending money to buy RVs?"

"...Hey, it's because the economy is difficult and disasters continue, and everyone has no money, so I want to buy a car!"

As a native American girl, Dolores is clear about this, and she immediately explained, "...It is said that in some countries, RVs are considered a luxury. Most people who can afford RVs like to live in RVs. The rich traveler.

But in the United States, the reason why most people choose RVs is because of poverty!Too poor to afford a house, he can only live in a car as a homeless man.

Those Americans who can't afford to buy or rent a house but still have some money are living in RVs!I heard that the total number has exceeded 4000 million..."

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In China, when talking about homeless people, most people have the impression of "covering a quilt under the overpass", dressed in rags, begging for food with a broken bowl.

But in the United States, there are also grades of homeless people. Some drive RVs, some drive small cars, and some push supermarket shopping carts.

Among them, only the lowest class of homeless Americans are those who wander the streets with supermarket shopping carts, which are roughly the same as the homeless in the Chinese impression-the difference is that among the most street-oriented American homeless , There are many addicts who take drugs, and they often do all kinds of strange behaviors.

The so-called crackdown on the homeless by the US government in this world is only aimed at this group of people who have nothing and are so poor that they sleep on the street.

The slightly more advanced American homeless people have their houses confiscated by the bank because of bankruptcy, but they still have a car left, so they simply use the car as their home. After being driven out of the house, living in the car is a lifetime, because in the United States, if you want to turn around after going bankrupt, it is really too difficult.On the contrary, it is very easy to get a car, especially an old car.

Unlike the well-maintained, clean-looking, waxed and polished vehicles of the middle class, the vehicles driven by the homeless in the United States, whether they be trucks, vans or cars, are worn out and dirty because they have to earn a living. Difficult, really no money to maintain the vehicle.

Still, they try to keep their cars as long as possible, even if they have to beg for gasoline.

Because, as long as you still have a car and you haven’t fallen to the level of sleeping on the street, you won’t be expelled or even arrested by the police at will.

(If you don’t even have a car and can only sleep on the street, then such a homeless person will have little chance of turning over.)

More advanced homeless people are actually low-level working-class people who can't afford the rent and want to have a home, so they get a cheap large trailer-type caravan (usually second-hand or remodeled by themselves), and take their children and wives with them. Move your home on wheels, resembling a modern gypsy caravan.

In the United States, these "family" RVs can be seen everywhere, parked together in the free camping area of ​​the park, or in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart supermarket, like a mobile poor community-and also a high incidence of various crimes.

But what can I do without money?This is the life of the poor. In the slums with low rents, the law and order may be even worse—at least there are security guards patrolling the parking lot of Wal-Mart supermarkets, while the slums with shoes hanging on telephone poles and street lamps are patrolled by even patrolmen. They dare not go in.

"...All in all, it is very difficult for those poor American families with low incomes and their families to settle in big cities. For example, in San Francisco and New York, if you want to find a big city with a good public security environment and convenient transportation A house, without a million dollars is not enough.

But in the United States today, the per capita debt ratio is so high, how many people can casually spend $100 million?

Even if you don't buy a house, but rent a house.But the rent in big cities can easily cost thousands of dollars, and they are often so crowded that they can’t even fit a refrigerator, and they may have to share the rent with others... Those who are single are fine, but what about couples with children?Let the child sleep in a hammock or live in a kennel?

If the wife can't work after giving birth and can only take care of the baby at home, how can the whole family live on the husband's salary?

Therefore, many low-level couples who have children think that instead of paying rent of one or two thousand dollars a month and living in crowded rental houses, it is better to buy a cheap trailer-style car, as long as they spend eight dollars. Thousands to ten thousand dollars—ah, that was last year, and now it has risen to thirty to forty thousand dollars—that is, half a year’s rent, and you can have a [3 meters by 10 meters] mobile home.

When the child is a little older, and the mother does not need to take care of her at home, she can go out to work, and then there will be time to rent a house..."

Dolores, a country girl with a red neck from Louisiana, talked so eloquently, introducing the housing concept of the lower class people in the United States to the Asian people around her, "...in Arizona, there is a famous "RV" Town' Quartset, in the heat hell of summer, Quartzett has fewer than 4000 residents and fewer tourists than tumbleweeds. But when winter comes, the weather gradually becomes mild and comfortable, and hundreds of Thousands of homeless people from all over the United States and Canada will come here to escape the cold, turning this small town into a temporary metropolis.

When I came to Los Angeles from my hometown, I stayed there for a few days and thought it was very interesting.Next time, if you go out in winter, I may take you to Quarter Sett to have a look and learn a lot.

In the same way, there is also a corresponding summer caravan town in the northern state of Montana, but there are huge crowds of people in summer, and there are no people in winter. "

"...Wow! Migrating in an RV as the seasons change? Isn't that the modern version of nomads?"

Ma Tong's eyes lit up when he heard this, "...just like the cowboys and caravans in western movies... Is this probably an American tradition?"

"...Hey, I heard from a long time ago that the United States is a country on wheels. I thought it was just a saying that the United States has a lot of cars. Now I know that it is such a [country on wheels]...not only Moved the family to the RV, and even made a mobile town!"

Megumi Akiyama shook his head and sighed, "...it's simply the real version of "Tomorrow's Ark"—it really is that art originates from reality and is higher than reality..."

Tramps who are more advanced than "RV nomads" are mostly divorced single white-collar men.Because the marriage law in the United States is seriously biased towards women, many divorced men are not skinned, but most of their lives are lost, and they have to pay alimony when they leave the house directly.

Next, these men who have been squeezed out often have no money to rent a house, so they simply drive the RV to the company parking lot, and just live like this.

Finally, those most advanced American tramps, the premium version of the "RV homeless", are actually the low-profile version of the "world citizen".

——What is a "global citizen"?It is the luxurious lifestyle of those big capitalists who fly around the world in planes: wake up in the morning by the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, feed pigeons on the streets of Paris in the afternoon, and watch a stage play on Broadway in New York in the evening.The next day, I flew to Bali to enjoy the beauty of the tropical beach... On Monday, I gave pointers and reprimanded Fang Qiu on Wall Street in the United States.Arrived in Norway on Tuesday to enjoy the beautiful aurora in the night.

How about it?Sound envious?

But it is impossible to live such a chic and exquisite luxury life without tens of millions of net worth.

Those who do not have so much property can only settle for the next best thing, get a better RV to travel around the United States, and become "interstate citizens".

Those second-class white-collar workers, salespeople, programmers, writers, etc., who can work from home and do not necessarily have to go to the company to work, think that with the increasing mobile network, it is similar to work anywhere.Instead of spending one-third of his income to pay the rent, he endured the noise of the city.It's better to buy a RV, take a short-term trip in the United States, and enjoy a comfortable life among the lakes, mountains and foreign scenery.

Long before the "Corona" plague broke out, millions of white-collar workers in the United States no longer rented houses, but lived in RVs.

——Farewell to the crowded city, travel in a RV, gallop on the uninhabited roads in the western United States, let you wander in the vast world; stop at will in the mountains and forests far away from the city, chat by the quiet lakeside bonfire, enjoy being surrounded Freshness and tranquility surrounded by nature...

At the same time, you can eat delicious meals made by yourself, sleep in a soft and comfortable bed, watch movies and listen to music, and live a comfortable urban lifestyle.

Connect to the Internet when you want to work, turn on the computer in the RV, and make money no matter where you are.

What a pleasant experience this is: free and unfettered travel, a comfortable and cool life... It's no wonder that those petty literary youths flock to it.