Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

In the middle of the night, the Isabel sailed slowly out of Marina del Bay at a low speed of eight knots (eight knots) and left Los Angeles.

The banquet hall of this cruise ship is still brightly lit.A huge noodle monster is suspended under the ceiling, wandering slowly, and it seems to be exuding the aroma of pasta, gravy and salsa vaguely... Although the feeling is not scary, everyone is still afraid to look up at it .

Underneath the flying noodle monster, a fat black cat with a smooth body and a fat body is arrogantly occupying the center of a round table.

Around the cat, more than a dozen beautiful waitresses knelt in a circle, respectfully offering trays of dried fish, sashimi, crab cakes, big lobsters and steaks, watching the cat that claimed to be The big black cat of Buster, the cat god, opened his cheeks to a table of delicacies and gorged himself.

Well, Serena, the cat girl who became a kitten again, also went to the table, and ate and drank with the cat god Buster—because she was mainly accompanied by Assistant Freya along the way. Flying, exhausting a lot of physical strength, if I don't eat more to replenish it quickly, I'm afraid I won't be able to carry it...

At the same time, on the sofa next to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the banquet hall, more than 20 famous ladies and gentlemen of some status surrounded the "Heavenly Rescue" such as Megumi Akiyama and Freya, and they were full of tricks. Flattery and gratitude, while trying to find out the secrets of the extraordinary world.

— Not to mention the evil spirits they just saw raging and the terrible tragedies they experienced, even if they didn't have such a thrilling night of bad experience, these people generally have a strong curiosity about real extraordinary things, ghosts and gods, I wonder if it's the same as in Hollywood movies.

Not to mention, some of these imaginative women have already associated from evil spirits to witchcraft, and from witchcraft to eternal youth, resurrection from the dead... Can't help but become greedy and eager to try-human imagination, only in the This one is such a jump on the floor.

"...Uh, that is to say, evil spirits are incorporeal things, firstly afraid of cats? secondly afraid of salt? thirdly afraid of electric shocks?

As long as you can hit the target with a Taser gun, you can really kill ghosts.And the cross is useless now?Because God hasn't come yet? "

After listening to the "Simple Lecture on Household Exorcism Techniques" given by the little witch Akiyama Hui and others, a certain famous lady who was just in shock suddenly couldn't help but sighed, "...Unexpectedly, cats are the natural enemies of all evil spirits, even if Is it an ordinary cat that can easily beat the evil spirits away?

Oh, what a pity, I would have brought our twenty-pound Maine Coon cat on board if I had known that..."

A middle-aged woman next to her, wearing a diamond ring and clutching a handbag, who looks like she is of Chinese origin, is already using her weird accented pidgin English to chatter with the captain, "...you guys The ship, it's still a luxury cruise ship, why doesn't it even have a cat?

Where is the luxury?Is it too poor?If there were a few ship cats on your broken ship, it wouldn't be like this..."

When the rest of the ladies heard the news, they also accused "this luxury cruise ship is so poor that it doesn't even have a cat", which caused them to be so frightened.

The captain wearing a white hat with a large brim rolled his eyes straight after being complained about, but he didn't dare to say anything wrong when faced with the true god descending from the world, so he could only endure it forcefully.

"...Ahem, for ordinary evil spirits without heels and backgrounds, keeping a few cats at home is indeed a guarantee of safety.

But if it is a powerful evil spirit manipulated by evil gods or demons, the exorcism talent of ordinary pet cats alone is not enough. "

Akiyama Hui added this with a serious expression while drinking coffee, and the ladies and ladies sitting around understood immediately.

——Ordinary policemen can certainly scare small thieves, but for gangsters carrying submachine guns, mere policemen are just targets.

But even so, don't the rich need to hire security guards and install security systems?Are there many thieves in this world, or are there many bandits?

Therefore, all the ladies and ladies who do not have cats are planning to buy cats as soon as possible; even those who have cats are planning to get more cats.

Some economically savvy celebrities even couldn’t wait to send messages on their mobile phones, waking up their brokers from sleep and ordering them to buy cat food, pet hospitals, salt industry and Taser stocks as soon as possible , Waiting for the stock price to soar in the next few days.

"...As for refined salt, although it is also a commonly used tool to ward off evil spirits, in fact, salt can only serve as an early warning when removing spirits.

If a house is rumored to be haunted, but you are not sure whether it is true or not, you can try to place a pile of salt in the house. If the salt suddenly turns black, it means that there is really a ghost, and you should run away. ...Although there are little ghosts that can be wiped out by just throwing salt, what if you encounter a fierce ghost?

In contrast, the electric spark of the Taser gun is the most reliable, and the ghost is guaranteed to be scattered in one shot-ghosts are basically afraid of thunder and lightning.

However, ordinary electric anti-wolf devices may be okay against idiots, but they have insufficient range and deterrent effect against ghosts.It is very likely that before you hit the evil spirit with it, the evil spirit has already entered your body from a different angle..."

The fox-eared witch Megumi Akiyama talked so eloquently, the fox tail behind her skirt flicked back and forth, enjoying the sense of accomplishment of being watched by so many people.

In particular, most of these people were ladies and ladies of the upper class in the United States, and they all looked pretty good, which greatly satisfied her vanity.

——As everyone knows, many people are just staring at the tip of her tail, moving their eyes back and forth...

Of course, Akiyama Megumi's next amulet sales plan was a great success—the twenty paper talismans she carried with her were sold out in an instant at a price of one thousand dollars each, and some people were even willing to give them to her. The organized shrine generously provided checks for tens of thousands of dollars.

Let the poor witch Akiyama Hui, who has almost spent the "Dragon Mama"'s car accident compensation recently, and has little money in her pocket, beaming with joy.

In addition, the other girls of the fox-eared witch group were also surrounded by famous ladies and ladies who flattered them and stroked their tails curiously.

Only the female ghost, Betty, was not allowed to appear on the stage in order to avoid being frightened because of the haunted ghost on the boat who died just now...

On the other hand, the low-status socialites and ordinary crew members on the luxury cruise ship Isabel, no matter whether they are assigned to work or not, are also sneaking in from their busy schedules, swiping their phones frantically, checking [Flying Pasta God] and [Cat God] Buster's details.

Fortunately, it's no secret that the former is popular on college campuses, while the latter is often featured in comics and movies.

So, a Brazilian girl who happened to be dressed as a female pirate in bikini and a three-cornered hat with a skull badge, smiled coquettishly and squeezed away the crowd, leaned over to Chen Qiuhan, the "Flying Noodles" and rubbed his cheeks affectionately. cheek, asking how to become a fan of FNS.

Although I only want to ride a blond and white-skinned ocean horse, I don’t like this brazilian mixed-race girl with thick eyeshadow, smoky eyes, and dark brown skin—especially when the other party smiles and reaches out to hug her. Chen Qiuhan, who has a very good nose, could smell the scent of burning hemp urine from the scent of perfume, but being able to be embraced by foreign girls made Chen Qiuhan, who had been suffering everywhere these days, feel very happy.

So, even though he didn't intend to have a good time with this Brazilian girl who is suspected of having just had a crush, Chen Qiuhan still gave her the registration website of the Flying Noodle Church and the underworld business of his own funeral company... By the way, I took a photo with this black-skinned girl A group photo was taken as a souvenir.

Looking at these little people who were not worth a penny before, now they are all star-studded, the black female judge Susie sitting in the distance couldn't help shaking her head with a wine glass and sighed, "...I can't imagine Ah, how times have changed. Jennifer."

"...Yeah, Susie, maybe we will live in the Marvel Cinematic Universe next? Or the world of DC Comics?"

The governor's wife, Jennifer Newsom, thought about it with great interest, "...the Catwoman already exists, but where are Superman and Batman? Well, I heard that there was a black man in San Francisco who proclaimed himself a voodoo priest. I don't know him Can it really drive corpses to run around?"

"...Jennifer, you may just think this is a novelty, but I see the old world we are familiar with is collapsing."

The black female judge said solemnly, "...no noble blood, brilliant education, huge money, not even restricted by nationality or race, just a little talent and some good luck to be favored by supernatural forces , some little people can be above the crowd.

Our past rules have nothing to do with them, and the law has nothing to do with them.

Because, how can the laws made by mortals restrain gods and demons? "

"...Then, do you have a way to sweep away the gods, demons and supernatural forces? Susie, who lacks imagination."

Finally understanding what the other party meant, the governor's wife couldn't help but smiled casually, "...Indeed, the times have changed, and it's a drastic change, which makes you very worried. But it's useless to look back, we just Being able to go with the flow and find a way to seize a little bit of an opportunity..."

——As a successful female director who has been in Hollywood Vanity Fair for many years, gained fame and fortune by holding high the LGBT white left flag, and even hooked up with a governor's husband, Jennifer Newsom, the wife of the governor of California, is not an empty-headed idiot. vase.

After she got rid of the life crisis and calmed down, she also vaguely realized something incredible:

From now on, with the massive appearance of supernatural forces, the power of law and money will be greatly weakened.

Wall Street financiers with capital in their hands no longer have everything, and a more turbulent and chaotic new world is coming.

But so what?Isn't America messy enough now?Chaos is the ladder!

Indeed, the United States after the Cold War is rapidly moving towards class solidification, but on the whole, this country is still a paradise for adventurers.

——Stealing is not ashamed, cheating is proud, everything is money, laughing at the poor but not laughing at prostitutes... This has been the case in the United States since the Gilded Age.

Although this can be interpreted as moral corruption and declining morals, it can also be seen as a certain sense of vitality.

If there are no outstanding figures among the thieves, then this society is truly dead and dead.

Therefore, the first reaction of the ambitious Jennifer Newson in the face of supernatural power is not to fear and resist, but to consider how to use it—before she has a clue, she might as well try to lure and win over it, just like it is a supernatural power. Venture capital is good.

In short, although some people are full of worries and some have ulterior motives, at least from the scene, on the Isabel luxury cruise ship sailing out of the Marina del Bay and sailing southwest, people have got rid of panic, and the atmosphere has become peaceful and comfortable... …

Until the end of the sea level shrouded in night in the distance, a dazzling flash of light suddenly lit up, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion:

"...Boom!!!"

Fortunately, because of the long distance, although there were screams in the banquet hall again, everyone was not very scared.

Then, the captain narrowed his eyes and looked at the flames rising in the distance, and immediately roughly judged the location of the explosion.

"...This direction should be...the Port of Los Angeles?"

PS: After the advent of the extraordinary, industries such as noodles, cat food, and Taser guns will welcome skyrocketing stock prices.

Cat god Buster's cat morality training class can also be held.

In addition, there is another brain hole. Transformers is an absolute American native culture. If it is included in Mahayana Buddhism, wouldn't it be able to fill up the immortal class all at once?

Gatlin is the Bodhisattva, Megatron, Starscream, Bumblebee, etc. are the Three Hundred Arhats.And Katyusha, Sherman, Apache, and more.

Very cyberpunk, very cyber Buddhism!

Chapter 102, The Melancholy of the Engineer Sergeant Major

Late night, June 6, Port of Los Angeles

Although it was late at night, and the downtown area of ​​Los Angeles behind was dark because of the power outage caused by the earthquake, this port and the adjacent Long Beach Port were still brightly lit, and the roar of cranes, trailers and large trucks resounded everywhere. , as well as orders and scolding from the tweeter.

Thus, together they constitute a wonderful picture that is full of voices, noisy and noisy, but slightly backward.

——When Shanghai's Yangshan Port has realized the world's first intelligent and automated unmanned port, it operates 24 hours a day and night, and an operator can remotely control several cranes in the rear central control room.The port of Los Angeles in California, USA, has been unable to promote modernization due to the long-term resistance of the long-term labor union of dock workers (worried about losing jobs), resulting in a very low degree of automation in the port.

Not only is it impossible to implement the "24/7 all-weather working system", but work must be shut down every night, and dozens of people are required to serve a large crane.

As for trailers, water diversion, signals, etc., in the Port of Los Angeles and the port of Long Beach next door, basically all operations must be done manually.

In general, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach basically remain in the style of the Cold War period, which is completely incompatible with the "high-tech" image of California. "by archeology" Russian port.

——California, which is located in the famous "Silicon Valley" and a lot of world-class high-tech companies, is using such a backward container port. It's like a high-speed train that doesn't get up.

Today, the port can operate on night shift all night, relying on Governor Newsom to declare a state of emergency with the support of Capitol Hill and the White House, forcefully send troops over, direct military control of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and wave a big stick to crush the labor unions and others. Heaps of interest groups were barely realized.

So what is different from the past is that besides the dock workers, there are also a large number of soldiers in camouflage uniforms who are busy in the Port of Los Angeles.

——Since the "Corona" epidemic broke out in the United States, the already poor operating efficiency of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach has further begun a sustainable and rapid decline due to dock workers falling ill, taking leave and resigning in batches.

After the earthquake on June 6, the two ports were basically paralyzed, making commercial companies on both sides of the ocean waiting to ship and receive goods, so anxious to have a myocardial infarction—no way, the container throughput of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach The volume accounts for 6% of the total annual container traffic in the United States!

Governor Newsom, who couldn't wait any longer, had to send troops to Los Angeles to break the situation violently and disperse the mob of black ghosts who had already occupied the port at that time.

Immediately afterwards, the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy in San Diego also dispatched marines to assist in the operation of the port, and escorted all the dock workers who could find them to work with guns.At the same time, it is necessary to rush to repair the power and water supply facilities of these two ports that have collapsed in the earthquake, or to bring in the army's field infrastructure equipment for the time being, and it is hard to make these two ports, which have been almost dead for a week, work again. .

Although due to the Los Angeles Earthquake, the highways and freight railways from the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach to the north have been cut off and will not be available in the short term. However, there is still a road going south from the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach through Irvine, etc. On the ground, the highway leading to the naval base San Diego is still intact for the time being, and the containers silted up in the port can be pulled to San Diego first, and then transferred from San Diego to other cities.

Therefore, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which was urgently transferred, has carried out emergency repairs and reinforcements on this expressway, and has widened and repaired some auxiliary roads that have been in disrepair for a long time to increase its transportation capacity.The Pentagon also gave this operation a very historic codename-"Holy Road"!

This is to commemorate the Western Front of the First World War more than 100 years ago. During the fateful Battle of Verdun, His Excellency Pétain, the commander of the French army, faced the desperate situation of cut off traffic on the front line and lack of supplies. He urgently dispatched a repair team and conscripted civilians along the way. , It took only a very short time to repair and widen a battlefield road, and within 48 hours, 19 vehicles were mobilized to transport 2 reinforcements and [-] tons of munitions to Verdun.

Because this road accomplished the transportation task of the Battle of Verdun excellently, it was called "Holy Road" by the French after the war.

Now, the Pentagon also hopes to send the Army Corps of Engineers to Los Angeles to complete this vital strategic transportation task.

Build the highway connecting Los Angeles and San Diego into the "Holy Road" of the United States in 2020.

——At first glance, it seems that the difficulty of doing this is not very high: at least they don’t have to bear the shells of the Germans like the French army in World War I, let alone like the Vietnamese army on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Need to withstand the crazy bombing of the US military's incendiary bombs and defoliants...

But the problem is, the Pentagon did not expect in advance that the US military in Los Angeles needs to resist the night attack of evil spirits!

Moreover, these unlucky U.S. troops do not have military cats, nor do they carry Taser guns that can restrain evil spirits...

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The grizzled Sergeant Major Frederick stood beside a large military field generator, watching in despair as the big guy shook violently, made all kinds of messy noises, and spewed out one after another. Normal pungent black smoke...

Since the condition of the generator car has been unstable, the surrounding lights are also flickering, causing the soldiers who rushed to work all night to complain.

Hey, the things Indians repair are so unreliable!

But the question is, if there are no Indian maintenance workers, who should we turn to for repairs and maintenance?

Thinking of this, Frederick couldn't help sighing anxiously, feeling more and more exhausted physically and mentally.

——In recent years, American soldiers have deployed weapons all over the world. While showing off their might, they also consume a lot of money, and the maintenance of weapons and equipment is especially difficult to solve.

The US military's logistics system has long had a large number of vacancies, which require skilled technicians and senior engineers to fill, but they cannot be recruited at all.

Because, decades of "de-industrialization" and sheep-herding happy education have completely hollowed out the foundation of American manufacturing.

And if a country does not have a developed manufacturing industry, how can it have a large number of cheap engineers and skilled technicians?

This requires a landlocked country to have a large number of excellent navigators and qualified sailors as outrageous!

Of course, the United States is not without elite education and willingness, and those white academic masters who study hard are indeed very powerful.

But the problem is, since everyone is already a top student, they must either study medicine and law, or sharpen their heads and go to Silicon Valley or other big companies to seek those high-paying jobs.

And absolutely unwilling to be a blue-collar mechanic, especially a mechanic in the US military logistics department.

——The working environment is not to mention dirty and messy, and the smell is particularly unpleasant. Faced with gasoline and various irritating chemicals every day, the damage to the body is not small. As long as young and ambitious white people have a choice Generally speaking, they would certainly not be willing to do this job.

More importantly, the U.S. military only pays an annual salary of [-] to [-] U.S. dollars for such a dirty and tiring job!

Beggars on the streets of New York earn more than that!It's even easier!

In short, the aspiring white elites are all developing in the fields of finance, medicine and law, dreaming of getting rich overnight and getting high salaries; the unmotivated & mindless white trash would rather be a leader than a "technical" or Brainstorming military maintenance career.

——Logistics maintenance requires a considerable degree of IQ, which is not only higher than that of the main force, but also much higher than that of ordinary production line personnel.

Of course, as an immigrant country, the U.S. military can also recruit hard-working East Asian Chinese to do logistics.However, China and the United States have become imaginary enemies to each other, and the Pentagon expressly prohibits the employment of Chinese in the military industry, regardless of how loyal those "colonizers" and "higher Chinese" show their loyalty.

Then, during the implementation process, various units of the US military overcorrected and excluded Japanese, Korean and even Vietnamese from the scope of recruitment.

——The population management system in the United States is quite loose, and ordinary employers have no way to check up to three generations.

Seeing an Asian face who is fluent in American English apply for a job, who knows that you are the second or third generation of immigrants from Japan or Korea?Or Chinese ABC?

The Yankees at the bottom can't tell the Asian minions from East Asian countries, just like ordinary Asians can't tell the whites from Europe and the United States.