Chapter 231

In the driver's seat, Vodka heard the commotion from Gin's side and asked in confusion.

"Vodka, drive carefully!"

"Okay, big brother!"

Although he didn't know why Gin suddenly clicked his tongue, Vodka clearly knew he shouldn't ask right now.

"By the way, brother, tomorrow is Sunday. We had arranged to meet at the bar."

"Um?"

Gin was puzzled.

"What day of the week is tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow is Sunday, bro."

Vodka gave a somewhat puzzled reply.

Gin frowned and asked.

"Vodka, what day of the week is it today?"

"It's Wednesday today, bro. What's wrong?"

Vodka gave a very honest answer.

"Today is Wednesday, tomorrow is Sunday!?"

Gin glared at Vodka, feeling that his underling was an idiot.

"Yes, today is Wednesday, tomorrow is Sunday, no problem, brother."

Vodka looked bewildered. Had he said something wrong?

"Vodka, are you out of your mind..."

Gin was about to curse when he suddenly remembered what Li Yue had said in the Chat Group, and his expression changed drastically.

"Vodka, are you serious?"

"Brother, is it possible for one of these to be fake?"

Vodka was genuinely bewildered. What was wrong with his older brother today? Why was he having such a lapse in basic time management? His brother had started acting strangely since the night before last, even starting to eat ramen.

Gin's expression was serious. Vodka might be a bit slow, but he wasn't so slow that he wouldn't understand what day of the week it was; otherwise, he would have been kicked out of the organization long ago.

In other words, this time is normal for Vodka, but not for him.

Vodka felt normal because the Bleach was manipulating time in this world, making everyone believe that this chaotic time was normal.

The reason he could sense something was wrong was because of this Chat Group. Through this Chat Group, he learned the truth about this world! And it seemed that after joining this Chat Group, he stopped being affected by the time control of the Bleach!

"So this is Bleach itself? How terrifying!"

For the first time, Gin was genuinely struck by how terrifying a person could be. Although the Chat Group had also shocked him, it was not his own world. Now, in his own world, a Bleach was secretly controlling the entire world, right beside him. That was the most terrifying thing!

Gin looked at the sky outside the glass window and for the first time felt that the world was so unreal.

Li Yue, who had just captured Tokyo, was also looking up at the sky in the direction of Osaka.

"Tokyo is in our hands, so next up is Osaka!"

418. The next target is Osaka.

After the Gastrea Wars, there were five areas in Japan where humans survived: Tokyo, Sapporo, Sendai, Osaka, and Hakata.

Sapporo is known for its inexpensive agricultural products, while Tokyo is the world's leading producer of Prometheus Metal because it is close to Mount Fuji, an active volcano rich in Prometheus Metal. Other volcanoes on Earth also contain Prometheus Metal, but they are generally far from human habitation areas, or lack the corresponding mining capabilities and haven't been developed into human settlements.

As for Osaka, it remained a region with a developed heavy industry, just as it was before the war. Before the war, Tokyo and Osaka were Japan's two major metropolitan areas, one with a developed economy and the other with a developed heavy industry, and this remained true after the Gastrea War.

For Li Yue, Osaka was a must-have, or rather, all five survivor regions in Japan were to be acquired. After all, he had brought five countries with him this time, each with a piece of land. Once the Gastrea were eliminated, they would form a united kingdom similar to Teyvat continent, and then expand outwards from Japan to other parts of the world.

However, we need to take Osaka first.

The situation in Osaka is somewhat different from that in Tokyo. Although Tokyo is essentially controlled by the Tendo family, the existence of the puppet Holy Emperor creates a semblance of Tokyo. However, this so-called democracy is merely a puppet manipulated by public opinion. The Tendo family controls everything in Tokyo, especially public opinion, and they can even incite people to take to the streets in protest.

Osaka, on the other hand, is very direct: dictatorship! Extremely dictatorial! Given that Osaka is a heavy industrial city, the atmosphere of this armed dictatorship is extremely strong.

Incidentally, Tokyo, after Raiden Shogun took power, has also embarked on the path of dictatorship. This was Li Yue's request. First, all police companies were to be consolidated. Police units, especially the Cursed Children, would be assigned jobs by the government, receiving fixed salaries and performance bonuses. The Cursed Children would have human rights and survival guarantees. In particular, all the wild Cursed Children would be "captured" and stuffed into the newly established orphanage, where the government would initially raise them. After they grew up, they would work for the government and be incorporated into a government-controlled organization called the Marechaussee Hunter, serving the government.

Furina exclaimed that she was an expert.

This policy was immediately opposed by the International Initiator Oversight Agency after it was promulgated, but Raiden Shogun ignored their objections and struck them with lightning outside their building. As a result, they withdrew their objections and handed over all the Cursed Children of the Tokyo branch.

The so-called International Initiator Oversight Agency is actually a commercial organization responsible for capturing wild Cursed Children, then using violence to tame and train them, and finally selling them to police companies for profit. They are in charge of training the Cursed Children, and even an international police ranking system originated from them.

This is a very typical example of setting standards and then benefiting from them. Anyone who wants to become a police officer must register with him and then do things according to his standards. Any initiator must also be trained according to his standards and report to him regularly.

Unfortunately, Li Yue and her group had no intention of following the rules.

The Tokyo dictatorship was announced just one day after Raiden Shogun took office, characterized by its swift and decisive action, so fast that the citizens of Tokyo were caught off guard.

As the Tokyo residents realized what was happening and began their protest, a bolt of purple lightning struck from the sky, taking away the first few dozen people. After that, they stopped protesting altogether.

Do you think I want a bunch of useless trash like you? All I want is this piece of land in Tokyo!

Humans in this world have gone far down the path of self-destruction, relying on the protection of the Cursed Children while simultaneously harming Cursed Children.

In Japan, in particular, there is a very funny organization called the "Japan Pure Blood Society". This organization has nearly 100,000 members in Japan. The purpose of this organization is to target the Cursed Children. They secretly capture and torture wild Cursed Children. They are submissive to Gastrea outside the city, but they strike hard against the Cursed Children in the city!

Besides this ridiculous organization in Japan, there is another organization in the world that is also mentally unstable: the Goshoukai. The Goshoukai is no less brain-dead than the high-ranking members in the Resident Evil series who want to cleanse the world so that they can become the protectors of the world's rulers.

This group of people, after the apocalypse, also dreamed of ruling the world and devised a series of plans to achieve this.

For example, the New World Creation Plan aimed to replace more than half of humans, and ultimately everything except the brain, with machines. It was terminated due to the termination of the New Human Creation Project, but Goshoukai restart this project as a plan to conquer the world.

For example, the Black Swan Plan. The so-called Black Swan Plan has a rather ridiculous interpretation: Swans are originally white, but one day black swans were discovered in Australia. The Black Swan theory is that long-term predictions are bound by previous knowledge, and once unexpected events occur, they are caught off guard and their predictions are broken.

The Goshoukai secretly researching and breeding Gastrea resistant to chromium, attempting to conquer the world. Their method involves artificially breeding Gastrea resistant to chromium and then using drugs to hypnotize and control them, forcing them to go to specific locations.

However, as we all know, the more you try to cultivate something that you think you have in control, the easier it is to lose control. Once the Gastrea is cultivated, it will no longer be under the control of Prometheus Metal and will directly go out of control. It is easy to imagine who will suffer then.

As for why we're mentioning the "Goshoukai," it's because they have many high-ranking members hidden in various survivor regions around the world, and some have even risen to the position of ruler, such as Osaka, which Li Yue wants to take over this time.

Osaka's president, Kensho Takeru, was a member of the Goshoukai, and a high-ranking one at that.

With the support of the Goshoukai, he implemented a dictatorial military rule in Osaka, hiring assassins to eliminate dissidents, making him a typical dictator.

While establishing his dictatorship, he also wanted to occupy Tokyo and even hired assassins to kill the Holy Emperor.

The ruler of Tokyo is no longer the Holy Emperor, so it's no longer his turn to hire assassins to kill the Holy Emperor. This time, it's Li Yue's turn to hire assassins to kill him, Kensho Takeru!

"Kageyasu Zaibatsu".

"At your command, sir."

Kageyasu Zaibatsu, wearing a mask, appeared beside Li Yue.

"I need you to go to Osaka and kill President Kensho Takeru of Osaka!"

"Yes!"

419. The Teyvat partition of Japan

Sending Kageyasu Zaibatsu to assassinate Kensho Takeru was a casual decision made by Li Yue.

Kensho Takeru implemented a dictatorial rule in Osaka, which led many people to want to kill him. He had survived many assassination attempts, but each time he was able to escape unscathed because he was also protected by skilled people.

Kageyasu Zaibatsu's entire body was almost entirely modified into mechanical parts, which is indeed quite strong, but it's not enough to say that he's invincible among ordinary humans.

If Kageyasu Zaibatsu could assassinate Kensho Takeru, that would be excellent. After all, with his abilities, a sneak attack wouldn't be impossible, especially considering Kageyasu Zaibatsu's outstanding performance in the Scorpius incident in Tokyo, opening the Qixing Legacy, summoning Scorpius, and his Kikunojyo Tendo.

Tokyo has spies from other regions. The exposure of Kikunojyo Tendo's video will naturally expose Kageyasu Zaibatsu as well. So if he goes to Osaka, he might be summoned by Kensho Takeru, and a close-range assassination attempt is not out of the question.

Even if Kensho Takeru was wary of Kageyasu Zaibatsu Kensho Takeru, preventing him from assassinating him, it wouldn't have any impact. Li Yue Kensho Takeru would still die eventually, it would just be a matter of sooner or later, and there would be no real difference.

For Li Yue, the most important question now is how to allocate these five cities in Tokyo!

"Five cities, just right for our five countries."

The Holy Residence, originally the residence of the Holy Emperor, is now the home of Li Yue and others. These individuals, now high-ranking officials in Tokyo, held their first meeting in this Otherworld.

"Tokyo has already been nominally declared to be ruled by Raiden Shogun, so let's leave Tokyo to Inazuma. Kage, are you okay with that?"

"No problem."

Ying nodded affirmatively. Tokyo's prosperity lay in the fact that it was Japan's economic, financial, and political center. But now, Japan has been divided into five regions, so there is no longer a so-called political center. As for the economic center, in this environment, finance is useless; only the economy remains, and the economy depends on what industries are involved.

Clearly, Tokyo's industry revolves around Prometheus Metal. Thanks to its proximity to Mount Fuji and its large reserves of Prometheus Metal, Tokyo is home to Shiba Heavy Industries, the world's largest manufacturer of Prometheus Metal weapons.

However, this thing is of no use to Li Yue, because Prometheus Metal has no effect on them except that it is a bit darker than other metals, since they possess divine power.

Therefore, Li Yue felt that giving Tokyo to Inazuma was perfectly acceptable.

"So how should the remaining four cities be divided?"

Venti asked curiously.

"Could you tell me where the remaining four cities are located?"

Zhongli asked a question.

Let's talk about this map.

On the table in front of them was a map of Japan. Talking to the map would be more intuitive for them.

"Then let me explain."

"First, there's Tokyo, where we are now. It's located in the Kanto region of Japan, on the Kanto Plain. It's situated in the center of the Japanese mainland and has Tokyo as its harbor. It's easy for people living here to become familiar with the specifics."

"In the northeast of the main island lies the Sendai region, facing the Pacific Ocean. It has a mild climate and is a very livable place. Of course, I mean it was livable before the Gastrea Wars. From all aspects, Sendai doesn't have anything particularly outstanding, but it also doesn't have anything particularly weak. You could say it's a fairly balanced city."

"Further northeast is Sapporo in Hokkaido, which is the northernmost metropolitan area in Japan and is known as the Sapporo metropolitan area. Compared to Tokyo in the center of the main island, Sapporo has a much smaller population, and is even somewhat sparsely populated. Because of the small population, Hokkaido has a large amount of agricultural land and is currently the most important agricultural production area among the five regions. However, because it is located in the north, it is covered by snow for a longer period of time each year."

"Looking west from Tokyo, you'll find Osaka, which is quite close to Tokyo. Osaka is indeed a heavy industrial city. It had a thriving heavy industry before the war, and it was preserved after the war. It is considered the most important industrial area in Japan. However, for Japan today, heavy industry is more focused on Prometheus Metal, so Osaka's heavy industry is overshadowed by Tokyo's Shiba Heavy Industries."

Li Yue shrugged as he spoke, because Prometheus Metal was useless to Li Yue, so none of the gods here cared about it.

"Further west of Osaka is Hakata, located in the northern part of Kyushu Island. It is also a port city. In terms of characteristics, it is very similar to Sendai. It doesn't have anything particularly outstanding, but it also doesn't have anything particularly weak. Before the war, Hakata was an important port city because it was closest to the mainland. After we take over it, it can also become an important port city connecting the mainland."

Li Yue pointed to the locations of the four regions on the map and gave a brief introduction to each one.

"Alright, let's talk about how to divide it."

"Okay, Li Yue, you choose first."

Venti took the initiative and let Li Yue choose first.

"After all, you brought this world to us, and you deserve the most credit. Excluding Tokyo, which has already been given to Inazuma, you can choose from the remaining four cities first, and then we will choose after you have made your selection."

Nahida and Furina nodded repeatedly after hearing Venti's words. Indeed, Li Yue deserved the most credit for being here, so letting him choose first was perfectly reasonable.

"Okay, then I'll choose Osaka."

Heavy industrial regions, especially those where heavy industries are mostly for daily use and construction, are completely different from the heavy industries in Tokyo that focus on Prometheus Metal weapons. For Liyue, these everyday heavy industries are the most important.

After hearing Li Yue's choice, Zhongli nodded in satisfaction. He had also chosen Osaka, and he was very happy to hear that Li Yue had chosen Osaka directly.

"Nahida, what about you?"

Li Yue made her choice, but Venti didn't rush to choose. Instead, she gave the next choice to Nahida, and Furina had no objection to it.

"I would choose Sendai. It's a livable place and very suitable for Sumeru. There aren't many places suitable for Sumeru to live in. I want to find a suitable area for Sumeru to live in, so that it will be convenient for the scholars of the Akademiya to carry out their daily studies and research."

Nahida chose Sendai from the perspective of livability.

"What about Furina?"

As the senior member, Venti once again stepped back, giving the choice to Furina.

"I choose Hakata!"

Furina stated her choice.

"I am from the Land of Water, not the Land of Snow. If it always snows in Hokkaido, it is not suitable for Fontaine. Therefore, I chose Hakata, which can serve as a port!"

The God of Water chose a port city further south, which is fine.

"In that case, Sapporo is mine!"