Don't worry, Yokohama is about to end

Have you ever heard the sound of the city "breathing"?

It's not some amazing superpowers or gorgeous scenery in comics, but some very ordinary things that can be seen everywhere, such as high and low honking horns in traffic jams, and roadside merchants' promotions with no morals at all. Loudspeakers, barking dog-walking teams in the park every day, bustling and charming commercials on the giant LED screen in the shopping plaza...

When they were there, I didn’t care about them, and even felt noisy, and then one day, with a “snap”, all of them disappeared—as if someone pressed the cancel button on the city you live in—

When those cars, those dogs, those loudspeakers, and those...people are all gone, you stand alone and barefoot on the streets of the city, and finally realize——

so quiet...

Yokohama, stopped breathing.

……

"—!!"

Tomoshang Mei woke up suddenly, the moment she opened her eyes suddenly, the girl reflexively clenched the gunblade she was holding in her arms, and the guard in her eyes slowly faded away after seeing the familiar ornaments in the bathroom.

"Is it morning?"

Mei glanced at the light that slipped in through the gap in the partition, slowly let go of the hand holding the knife handle, and got up from the bathtub.

The place where the girl wakes up is not the usual bedroom, but a bathroom on the top floor of the villa.

Originally, this was a bathroom that fit every girl’s dream. Like this villa with outstanding lighting, the hostess of Zhishang’s house is a woman who is extremely obsessed with sunshine and extremely romantic. She replaced the ceiling of her little daughter’s bathroom with a large Glass, when lying in the bathtub, as long as you look up a little, you can see the bright starry sky, or the blue sky unique to Yokohama.

"It's very romantic, right?" Mrs. Chishang said happily.

You call this romantic?

Facing her mother who was blushing with a smile on her face, Mei, who had already entered puberty, said nothing, but stared blankly at the big window above her head for a moment, then turned around and dialed the number of the engineering team——

Add money to put the demolished ceiling back together.

Well, at least it was changed to fully automatic control.

There's nothing wrong with being romantic and safe.

However, these have nothing to do with the gloomy bathroom at this time——

At this moment, the cold white bathroom was only dark, all the light-transmitting windows were blocked by partition boards, and the lighting equipment in the bathroom was also turned off, so there was no light at all.

In this regard, the silver-haired girl's hair is small, and the big and strong boy from Sakai showed extreme disgust.

"Miss Mei Zhishang, I must say that this kind of behavior of not sleeping on a soft bed, sleeping in a dark bathroom at night, holding a weapon, and using the bathtub as a bed is somewhat psychologically ill. Consider entering the treatment cabin for emergency rescue?"

"Before that, let the treatment cabin cure your serious illness of calling your wife to a plastic mold and calling "EX curry stick" with a rolling pin. "

"Shut up! What do you know about my king? Don't casually link other people's beliefs with diseases! This is normal for me, as evidenced by the psychological evaluation report last month!"

Mei Zhishang sincerely swung a fatal blow: "Oh, really, then why are you still lonely until today?"

Daizo Sakai, who has never made a successful confession in his 18 years of life: "..."

"Forget it, let's talk about how to modify your bathtub for sleeping."

A ray of light came in from the gap in the partition and fell into the golden pupils of the silver-haired girl, interrupting Mei Shang's memories.

Mei yawned, and while moving her numb neck and limbs, she gave instructions to the villa robot, "Alice, open the villa partition."

An inorganic female voice sounded out of thin air——

[Voiceprint authentication, identity confirmation is complete, command execution...]

The next moment, all the partitions in the villa received the order as normal, and they were put away in unison, revealing the large and small translucent windows behind them.

This is a product unique to Yokohama in 2025.

Semi-AI smart housekeeper.

Although this technology is now popularized in the homes of every ordinary citizen, its original source of technology is unknown.

A very interesting conjecture once circulated among the older generation of citizens.

About 30 years ago, before Yokohama developed, someone witnessed a child awakening with magical powers, just like those in comics.

But this rumor was quickly identified as a rumor by the government, and after that, an unknown scientific research technology was suddenly born in Yokohama. In just 30 years, the city has become a dreamlike city of science and technology. This power of scientific research is known as "miracle technology".

Numerous medical problems have been solved, and even a technology like "AI", which was born at least 100 years later, has appeared in the world and entered the homes of citizens.

And someone once jokingly proposed——

"Eh? The time when Yokohama's "miracle technology" appeared coincided with the time when rumors of "supernatural powers" appeared. "

However, this statement did not attract people's attention, and it was indeed like a qualified joke, which quickly disappeared from people's vision.

The partition board in Zhishang's house, which had been sealed overnight, was opened, and a large swath of sunlight poured in, dispelling the darkness in the house overnight.

This is a life-saving measure that Mei and the others figured out.

When evening comes, close all the windows of the house, turn off all the lighting facilities, and make no sound, so that the group of "shadow people" who are active at night will not be able to notice the breath of living people.

And after the sun rises, they need to open the barrier to let the light into every corner of the house.

This is also their code of survival in this city.

Under the sunlight, Dazhuang Sakai, who was still asleep downstairs, frowned, turned around with a grunt, hid his head under the pillow, and continued to sleep soundly.

On the next bed of Dazhuang Sakai, a young man in a white coat who just joined yesterday, Song Beiquan is sitting on a chair by the bed and looking out the window, his face with glasses is facing the light, making it hard to see his expression clearly.

On the second floor of the villa, Mei Zhishang, who had finished grooming, faced the mirror, re-tied her loose long hair into double ponytails for easy movement, and pulled down her black fingerless gloves.

The silver-haired girl turned her head sideways, and her golden eyes looked straight at the center of Yokohama, the direction called "Yokohama Landmark Building".

"Good morning, Yokohama."

??

【Good morning, Yokohama. 】

The silver-haired girl's gaze passed through the sky, directly conveyed to another time and space, and displayed it in front of the watchers.

Outside the screen, a drowsy monitor was startled when he saw Shangzhi Shangmei's golden eyes, and he stood up abruptly, and the chair behind him turned on the pulley, and spun away far away.

Due to the angle, Mei's hello and the sight he cast were too vivid. At that moment, the monitor even had the illusion that A367 could see him.

"What, it's scary."

After standing there for a while, the monitor, who finally realized that it was a false alarm, breathed a sigh of relief, and the sleepy bug in his head was completely gone after being frightened by this.

I don't know who he wants to show it to, the man regained his momentum in the unmanned monitoring room, pulled back the slippery chair with one hand, and muttered: "Really... Which person with supernatural ability did it? , it is impossible to really be some kind of god..."

Before the monitor sat down again, a knock on the door interrupted his muttering.

"Sato-kun, is there any new change on A367?"

The door of this monitoring room could not be closed, and was kept open all the time, so the visitor knocked symbolically and walked in directly.

The person who came in was a young man with a refined and rigorous temperament, wearing round glasses on his face, and a small black mole at the corner of his mouth.

"Ah! Saka, Mr. Sakaguchi!"

Sato, the monitor who was about to sit down, straightened up hastily when he saw the face of the person coming.

Ango Sakaguchi, the assistant officer of Taneda Shanhuo, the head of the Supernatural Special Affairs Section, although there has always been ridicule in the department that "it is a good brick, where it needs to be moved", but for these small monitoring personnel, it is still necessary Be extra careful with your immediate boss.

As if trying to cover up his previous lazy behavior, Sato touched his nose unconsciously, frantically dug out the records spit out by the machine, and reported: "The detection equipment shows that after a brief fluctuation in the physiological level of A367, it has It has returned to normal levels, and the emotional index and anti-stress index are slightly lower than the predicted values, but within the safe range."

"Really? I understand, thank you for your hard work, Sato-kun."

Ango Sakaguchi nodded, indicating that the man could take a break for a while, and the next monitor will come to take over soon.

"That... Mr. Sakaguchi!"

Before Ango Sakaguchi left, the monitor suddenly stopped him.

"Excuse me, what is this "A367"..."

Monitor Sato hesitated for a while under the gaze of Ango Sakaguchi, and finally asked the doubts that had been fermenting in his mind recently, "Is the child's voice that sounded in Yokohama that day true?"

"This girl—we, have we really become a game on the gods' board?"

The young man in a high position calmly stared at the subordinate in front of him, until the other party began to feel uneasy and broke out in cold sweat, then he looked away and turned towards the direction of the sky.

Ango Sakaguchi silently looked at the girl with silver hair and golden pupils on the screen, and said in a tone as calm as ice water, "Sato, there are no gods in this world."

"No. A367, Mei Zhishang, is just another disaster caused by a person with supernatural powers."

Yes, Mei Zhigami is a disaster in Yokohama.

At least, this is the official answer that their Supernatural Secret Service can give now.