CHAPTER 594: A SERIES OF BAD NEWS

Chapter 596 - Probability of Nuclear Leakage Accident - 100%

Of course, Liu Xing felt that Rundell should not accept his call now, because this earthquake, whether it was caused by Migo’s earthquake mining mechanism or the Earth-boring Demon Worm, proved one thing - the mythical creatures inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant had started a big fight!

This means that the self-sealing of that thing has been lifted, so it has caused those mythical creatures to start competing for it. And now Rundell should be hovering in the air with his two friends, waiting for the opportunity to snatch that thing. As expected, Rundell did not accept Liu Xing’s call request. This made Liu Xing frown, because now the mythical creatures inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant have officially started fighting, which is not good news for their group, after all, as long as there is a fight on the Fukushima nuclear power plant side, the Island Nation government will definitely send people to stabilize the situation, but in terms of the Island Nation government’s strength, trying to deal with so many powerful mythical creatures without being able to use heavy weapons is basically an impossible task, so the Island Nation government should only go to "clean up the aftermath" for those mythical creatures. But still, the old saying goes, if those mythical creatures blow up the Fukushima nuclear power plant, that would be even more troublesome. Liu Xing sighed, now he can only think about it here, after all, their group cannot go to the Fukushima nuclear power plant and fight those mythical creatures, so from the current situation, they can only leave it to fate.

At this time, Ling Ishikawa, holding the mobile phone, said, "This earthquake is indeed from the Fukushima area, but the most important thing is that this earthquake also brought a tsunami, and the tsunami has already swept the coastline of Fukushima and the surrounding areas, fortunately the local residents have all evacuated, so now it’s just an economic loss."

A tsunami has come?

Liu Xing couldn’t help but think of the real-world Fukushima earthquake, and now the only thing missing is an accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Just then, Ling Ishikawa continued, "Yomiuri Shimbun has also published a report, their informant arranged by the Island Nation Power Company has just sent a line report, claiming that some units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant have shown abnormal reactions due to the recent earthquake, so Yomiuri Shimbun suggests that everyone stay indoors and close doors and windows to deal with the possible nuclear leak accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant."

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, a little surprised and said, "This Yomiuri Shimbun seems to be quite powerful, they have people everywhere, and they can even get such important news in the first time. But to think about it, I remember Yomiuri Shimbun should be a semi-official media, how come they are always undermining the Island Nation government?"

Although Yomiuri Shimbun is a private company, Yomiuri Shimbun’s development into the largest media company in Island Nation is thanks to the support of the Island Nation government, after all, even the most "free" United States of America controls the direction of public opinion. Moreover, Island Nation is a very peculiar country, because so far the bureaucratic system of Island Nation has a very strong family nature, because the former Island Nation public, that is, the aristocratic class, still occupies a large number of important positions in Island Nation.

Although it has been mentioned before, the Island Nation in this parallel world is more or less the same as the real-world Island Nation, which also implemented the aristocratic system after the Meiji Restoration, unifying the local daimyo and the aristocratic class into the aristocracy, and then issued a law to abolish the aristocracy after World War II. Of course, this only formally abolished the aristocratic class of Island Nation, but in reality, those families still enjoy a lot of privileges and control various aspects of Island Nation, after all, the aristocracy can be said to be the backbone of Island Nation. If the aristocracy was truly abolished, Island Nation would be done for, because at that time, a large number of aristocrats were serving in the government, and many of Island Nation’s enterprises were also the property of the aristocratic families. Therefore, even now, the shadows of the aristocratic families can be seen behind many of Island Nation’s famous companies, including Yomiuri Shimbun, and the aristocratic families behind Yomiuri Shimbun are not just one. After all, Yomiuri Shimbun is a big cake that one aristocratic family cannot eat up. So Yomiuri Shimbun, while being a private company, is still the mouthpiece of the Island Nation government, because Yomiuri Shimbun has aristocratic families acting as a bridge between it and the Island Nation government. But the current situation is a bit strange, Yomiuri Shimbun is starting to ruthlessly undermine the Island Nation government, which has left Liu Xing a bit puzzled. "Could it be that the warrior families and the aristocratic families have fallen out again?" Ling Ishikawa said.

Because of the emergence of the shogunate system in Island Nation, it can be said that two completely different courts have appeared in Island Nation, one is the "civil" court centered on the Island Nation Emperor, and the other is the "military" court centered on the shogun. Although the "civil" court centered on the Island Nation Emperor has almost no real power other than the appointment of officials, a group of old-line families of Island Nation still gather around the Island Nation Emperor, and these families have existed since the unification of Island Nation, so although they have little power and territory like the Island Nation Emperor, their status in Island Nation is very high, just like the Zhou Dynasty’s Son of Heaven and his ministers in China’s Spring and Autumn period, so this group of families belong to the aristocratic class, commonly known as the public families. The "military" court led by the shogun, on the other hand, has gained the actual power to rule Island Nation, but since the important members of the "military" court are from the warrior class, the warriors of Island Nation are like the knights of Europe, belonging to the lowest level of nobility. To correspond to the public families, these warrior families are called the warrior families. After the emergence of the warrior families and the public families, the contradictions between the two have never ended, because the warrior families have real power but low status, while the public families have high status but little real power, and the public families often demand certain political contributions from the warrior families when granting them positions, which has deepened the contradictions between the two. But the peculiar Island Nation is still very peculiar in this regard. Because Island Nation attaches great importance to bloodline, the warrior families often like to "claim their ancestors" after becoming prosperous, making their family bloodline appear more noble, the most famous of which should be Tokugawa Ieyasu, the final victor of the Warring States period of Island Nation. Tokugawa Ieyasu’s family was originally called Matsudaira, but after Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto in the Battle of Okehazama, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was originally a hostage of the Imagawa family, took the opportunity to escape back to his family’s original territory, and a few years later, after joining forces with Takeda Shingen to destroy the Imagawa family, Tokugawa Ieyasu officially changed his family name to Tokugawa. The reason for changing the name to Tokugawa is that the Tokugawa surname can be traced back to the Minamoto Clan, which is said to be the noblest bloodline in Island Nation.

However, it must be said that in the Warring States period of Island Nation, the surnames of many daimyo can be related to the Minamoto Clan, but these daimyo families have almost no connection with the Minamoto Clan at all. In addition to this shameless "claiming of ancestors" behavior, many powerful warrior families will also choose to marry into public families to enhance the "bloodline" of their own families, but the public families who consider their bloodline noble are definitely high and cold, often only arranging some concubines or even adopted daughters to marry the chieftains of those warrior families, and they must be the main wife, so this has also indirectly deepened the contradictions between the warrior families and the public families. After all, we warrior families are the ones with real power, why should your public families be higher in status than us warrior families, and then dictate to us?

So the contradictions between the warrior families and the public families of Island Nation have almost no possibility of being eliminated until they have become "ordinary people" in modern times. The reason why Ling Ishikawa said this actually has some hidden meaning. Because the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall will add some malicious settings in certain parallel worlds, and the country with the most malicious settings is Island Nation. Who would have thought that Island Nation is so peculiar in the real world?

Among the malicious settings related to Island Nation, one that the players of the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall are most fond of is the contradiction between the warrior families and the public families of Island Nation. The trigger condition for this setting is very difficult, first of all, the parallel world needs to be in the late stage, then Island Nation needs to experience a serious disaster, and the current leader of Island Nation needs to die during the course of the disaster, and finally, other countries must not be able to intervene in Island Nation’s internal affairs, and there must be at least one player from the Cthulhu region in the warrior families and public families of Island Nation. Then as long as this series of conditions are met, the warrior families and public families of Island Nation will erupt in conflict, and the main content of the conflict will be the seizure of actual control of Island Nation, and any player with a certain connection to Island Nation will be forced to make a decision, to join the public families or the warrior families. However, in the end, whether it is the public families or the warrior families that achieve the final victory, Island Nation will enter the "Hundred Ghosts Night Parade" era, and secret cults and mythical creatures will officially appear in the eyes of ordinary people around the world, because whether it is the public families or the warrior families, they will choose to cooperate with Island Nation’s secret cults in their struggle for power, which is tantamount to courting disaster. As for the players within the scope of Island Nation, after choosing their own camp, their character card will be bound to the camp they have chosen, and if the camp they have chosen fails, their character card will be unconditionally dropped and cannot be revived through the revival module; of course, if the camp you have chosen wins, your character card will receive a lot of rewards, but your character card will also be transformed into a fanatic believer. Of course, in addition to the "War of the Public and Warrior Families" in Island Nation, in the parallel world set in the 1920s, the United States of America may also experience a "Second Civil War" due to the enactment of Prohibition, but since only one parallel world has experienced the "Second Civil War" so far, and the "Second Civil War" in this parallel world has not yet ended, the relevant information is still ongoing, and the trigger conditions are not yet clear. But to get back to the point, Liu Xing feels that the "War of the Public and Warrior Families" is now on the verge of breaking out, because the conditions for triggering the "War of the Public and Warrior Families" are about to be met.

First of all, this parallel world has already entered the late stage, and a serious disaster is currently occurring in Island Nation - the two consecutive major earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as the imminent possibility of a nuclear leak accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, or even an explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant!

As for the remaining conditions, Thousand Face is now preparing to assassinate the current leader of Island Nation, Inukai Abe, and the United States of America, due to the Cosmic Country incident, is probably now unable to intervene in the affairs of Island Nation. So from the current situation, only the last condition may be relatively difficult to meet, after all, in a parallel world, the players who can rise to the Cthulhu region are not many to begin with, and they also need to be born into the public families and warrior families of Island Nation, so the difficulty of this condition is theoretically greater than the difficulty of the other conditions combined. But!

As mentioned earlier, the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall is very malicious, so when the first few conditions of the "War of the Public and Warrior Families" have already been met, the last condition will definitely be satisfied. This is the iron law summarized by the players of the eighteen parallel worlds that have triggered the "War of the Public and Warrior Families"!

So Liu Xing reckons that his character card is likely to be dragged into the "War of the Public and Warrior Families". This is not good news, because as soon as the "War of the Public and Warrior Families" enters the white-hot stage in the middle, at least the secret cults and mythical creatures within the scope of Island Nation will emerge from the darkness, and then the whole world will know the existence of secret cults and mythical creatures, the consequences of which are self-evident, so the countdown of this parallel world will enter the fast-forward stage. In simple terms, the "War of the Public and Warrior Families" is the death knell of this parallel world!

Liu Xing rubbed his chin and decided that after this module ends, he will go to the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall’s store to buy a character card and activate it in other parallel worlds, so as to prepare a backup plan for himself in advance, after all, this parallel world is about to be over. Realizing this, the expressions of Zhang Jingxu and the others also began to look grim, especially Zhang Jingxu. Because as an NPC, Lu Tianya can only coexist and perish with this parallel world.

Just then, Liu Xing suddenly received a message from OkoHayato - Inukai Abe fell down the stairs due to the recent earthquake and suffered a serious head injury, and is now in critical condition in the hospital. OkoHayato told him this because OkoHayato wants Hu Li to confirm the dynamics of Thousand Face. Let me talk about the current plan, the protagonist of the next module will get back their first character card, and then a dual-line mode will begin.

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