Chapter 231 01: Don’t look directly at the moon
Heavy rain.
Street of Shibuya, Tokyo.
Pedestrians with depressed and numb expressions held umbrellas and walked on the zebra crossing as the traffic lights switched from green to green, mingling with each other.
The evening melted into the dark clouds, and no one knew whether the sun had set at this time, but the already slightly dark sky weighed on the heads of everyone on the earth, making them dare not look up.
All around, there were dense slogans that were not very clear in the darkness, but it didn't matter. These slogans were mainly for use at night. As the time came, they began to be powered on one after another, and they kept repeating a sentence in the darkness.
[Don’t look directly at the moon]
At a glance, several glowing, clearly positioned, and identical content signs are standing on buildings or streets, but people are not interested in such weird slogans. He seemed not to be surprised, and his gaze didn't even linger.
"Mom, that man is so strange."
While crossing the road, the little girl who was being held by the hand curiously pointed to a man in the middle without an umbrella.
"Don't look at him, let's go around."
The mother glanced at him warily and held the child's hand tightly.
In the middle of the road, at the zebra crossing, people look at each other strangely or don’t even dare to look at each other. They make a curve to avoid others and stand still without holding an umbrella, letting the heavy rain soak them. Wet middle aged man in suit.
He just stood there with his waist bent, his head lowered, silently, motionless, not knowing where he got the stimulation.
People just want to avoid him and not cause extra trouble to themselves.
In recent years, people have seen more and more bizarre incidents. The more they learn about them, the more ordinary people become breathless. It is not uncommon for people to collapse from time to time, further worsening the already depressing social atmosphere.
The remaining normal people just hope that these collapsed people will not disturb their fragile lives.
They just want to live well as ordinary people in this world full of extraordinary turmoil.
Standing in the rain on the street is already a moderate approach, at least it will not trouble others.
Under the heavy rain, the rainwater wetted the whole body of the man in the suit. The water dripped down his hair and cheeks. His lips were trembling or squirming. It seemed that there was a faint sound, but they were quickly hit by the raindrops. If it falls, it cannot be spread.
After being so sluggish for a long time, he slowly raised his head, as if he had been inspired by something.
"Oh my god, dear, look."
"Let's go." , walk faster.”
When a couple saw the man’s raised head, their expressions immediately became horrified. They didn’t even bother to wet their trousers. The man took his girlfriend’s hand and sped up. Speed up and stay away from this intersection.
After a while, the man in the suit had completely raised his head, facing the raindrops and looking at the sky.
"I finally saw the real moon."
In the man's reflected pupils, there was only one moon, an exaggerated full moon like in anime works.
The strange thing is that at this time, there are obviously dark clouds, but if most people dare to look up, they will find that the twin moons are hanging in the sky, unobstructed.
But for some people, there has always been, and should be, only one moon in the sky, never more, and never less.
More and more people noticed the behavior of the man in the suit. Most of them hurriedly stayed away from him with a little panic. A few people chose to call the Special Affairs Bureau to report the abnormal situation.
According to normal circumstances, this kind of suspected extraordinary incident will first be investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department, and then confirmed and then notified to the extraordinary countermeasures force or extraordinary team of the Special Affairs Bureau for handling.
However, it was obvious that even the Metropolitan Police did not arrive in time.
“In this turbid and hypocritical world, only the Mother Goddess is the real one. Only by gazing at the Mother Goddess can we bring a moment of peace. Only by falling into the arms of the Mother Goddess can we uncover the truth and witness eternity. ."
The words murmured by the man in the suit became clearer and clearer. In his sight, the real moon slowly opened the veil towards him, opened his eyes, and stretched out countless hands full of maternal glory. , caressing the soul of a middle-aged man full of scars, he looked so peaceful, and he couldn't help but be fascinated by it.
"Yes, yes, I am a child of the Mother Goddess, always have been."
The man's grin revealed a captivating smile. His mouth became wider and wider, and his laughter became increasingly weird.
Just when his body seemed to be changing, a pink umbrella blocked his sight and blocked the connection between him and the mother goddess.
The man was startled, then looked sideways angrily, only to see a beautiful female high school student standing next to him, looking at him playfully.
The instinctive hostility lurking in the man's body immediately erupted the moment he saw the girl. Centered on the chest and abdomen, a vertical mouth with sharp teeth quickly opened and he let out a strange roar towards the girl.
The woman's smile became even brighter.
"It's so disgusting."
The man seemed to become even more angry because of these words, and his mouth expanded again, almost able to swallow the petite girl in front of him in one gulp.
The people around may be a little panicked, but it is not too chaotic. Just like the extraordinary evacuation procedures that have been included in the required courses, with the monster and the girl as the center, they disperse to the surroundings. Those who were originally waiting The driver of the car with a red light also hurriedly got out of the car and fled into the distance, ready to call Chaofan Insurance Company at any time.
Everything is so skillful that it makes people feel distressed.
The girl in the center of the zebra crossing faced the giant mouth without changing her smile. Just when the mouth was about to touch it, she slowly opened her mouth.
"Stop."
The raindrops freeze instantly.
Within a few meters around the girl, time seemed to freeze.
Splashing water drops, big mouths of slime, stagnant monsters.
This piece of time and space is as if it were dug out from the original universe, leaving only a hole that no one will notice.
But among them, the girl was not affected at all. She quietly lowered her tiptoes, opened the umbrella sideways, brushed away the solidified raindrops with her fingers, silently walked to the side of the monster, and spat out her lips again.
"Inverse."
The raindrops return to the sky, the water on the ground turns into water droplets again, and the heavy rain in the opposite direction rises from the earth and disappears outside this lonely time and space.
The monster's movements are like rewinding with the heavy rain, and it becomes a human again, from looking up at the moon to lowering its head.
“Return.”
After an invisible shock, the girl and the monster returned to reality.
The eyes of the man in the suit suddenly swelled, like a frog, almost exploding, and his chest was even more bulging like a balloon.
“Gu——Ka! Yue Qi——”
Bang!
The upper body of the man in a suit exploded completely, splattering a large amount of blood and minced meat, mixed with heavy rain.
The girl had used an umbrella to block the blood mist at some point, and her JK uniform and black stockings were not stained at all.
On the ground, a card the size of a blood-stained business card reflected the faint light.
The next second, the card slowly floated up and landed in front of the girl. It has a light yellow background with only a complex circular pattern on it.
"Moon Picture." Without any surprise, the girl took out an evidence bag and put it into it.
"Tashiro-senpai, this is Ringo Iizumi, one of the moon polluters was culled at the crossroads in front of Shibuya Station, please handle it."
"Received, please Iizumi to maintain the scene, the nearest logistics processing team is probably Arrive within seven minutes. By the way, Toshihiko is also nearby, and he seems to be heading towards you."
"Kan Toshihiko (Ability: Great Adventure Journey)? Thank you, Tashiro-senpai, I understand."
"Well, just don't fight."
"Senior, please rest assured, I will not bully him."
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Hang up the communication, Jing Quan threw three pancake-shaped devices around the body in a triangle shape. After the devices landed on the ground, they were automatically absorbed, and then projected a holographic image above, forming a circle. There is a warning triangle with the words [Extraordinary Disaster] and [Civilians Stay Away] scrolling in a loop on it, and the extraordinary siren is constantly broadcasting.
The girl standing in the rain holding an umbrella seemed to be deep in thought. After a moment, a male voice came from behind, interrupting her.
“Ah, Jingquan, you are here too.”
Looking back, it was Guan Junyan who had rushed to the scene.
"Since Senior Guan is here, let me leave it to you. The logistics team will be here in a moment. These are related items." Jing Quan controlled the evidence bag and floated it in front of Guan Junyan.
"Is it [Mother Goddess Unification] again?" Guan Junyan saw the moon map, frowned and looked at the card and half of the body.
Jing Quan hummed slightly, turned around and prepared to leave the scene.
"Jingquan. Things about Iki Island." Guan Junyan tried to speak hesitantly.
Jing Quan’s back suddenly disappeared into the air along with the surrounding rain.
Guan Junyan's expression changed and he suddenly retreated.
The next moment, the space he was just in was distorted, the heavy rain retreated, and the girl holding a pink umbrella reappeared in front of him. Just where he was just now, the smile on his face had changed and was filled with Cold and indifferent.
"Don't think that I won't dare to attack you because we are in the Special Affairs Bureau, Guan Junyan, you'd better pray that I won't catch you."
Guan Junyan shook his head, He looked downcast and said no more.
Lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the world.
On the roof not far away, a strange man wearing a black robe and a crescent moon mask silently looked at the two people at the intersection.
But when the next bolt of lightning lit up the sky again, the strange man disappeared from the roof, as if what had just appeared was just an illusion.
After a while, the logistics team arrived and expertly conducted anti-contamination operations on the blood stains in the area, retrieved recent monitoring data, and compiled the information.
Tokyo Special Affairs Bureau.
Since its establishment, the overall power of the Special Affairs Bureau has increased with more and more frequent extraordinary events.
After undergoing a major reform two years ago, the extraordinary faction gradually took the dominant position, and the traditional faction retreated steadily. Now, even the official can no longer completely order this extraordinary organization. At most, it can only ask for special things based on national interests. Bureau's assistance.
"Is it related to the [Mother Goddess Consolidation] organization again?" Kuroki Shinsen, who was already the director of the Special Affairs Bureau, put down the information in his hand and asked the person next to him, "What time this month is this? ?”
“Starting from the 18th, today is August 20th. As of today, the number of monthly polluters that have appeared is already the entire number from last month.” The new deputy director of the Intelligence Department next to me. Nagahirata Reimei opened her mouth with information.
"Eighteen" Kuroki pondered for a moment, "It took almost three years to go from having one every month to eighteen every month, so what will the next three years be like?"
Hirata calculated silently. Although he came up with several possible data, he did not speak.
Kuroki looked at the moonlight outside the window and shook his head.
In fact, not everyone will be polluted if they look directly at the moon, but experiments have confirmed that even ordinary people will become more and more mentally confused if they look directly at the moon for a long time. This is also the case for various types of pollution in recent years. One of the reasons for the high incidence of mental illness.
"It's been such an earth-shaking few years." Kuroki sighed.
Three years ago, the sun shone on the entire earth at the same time, and human beings were under the same sun for the first time.
The next day, two moons hung high in the night sky.
What is frightening is that it is impossible to detect which moon is real by human means.
Yes, even with satellites orbiting the moon and even lunar observation vehicles, people still can't tell which of the two moons in the sky is real.
And since then, the moon has begun to experience new geological activities, and a huge circular crack called the "Ring of Artemis" has been exaggerated.
It's like a spoon that dug out a piece of the moon, but then put it back again.
People dare not think deeply about the strange changes in the world and the universe.
The only consolation was that not long after, the Holy Infant appeared again and stated in a calm tone that nothing would happen to the earth.
They have no choice but to believe, otherwise, the more they think about it, the more they collapse.
The Holy Infant also revealed some secrets to them. For example, the moon had already been polluted by some kind of power, and it is only now gradually waking up. It won’t take long before monsters polluted by the moon will gradually appear among humans. The only thing that can delay this process is not to look at the moon, and use [Moon Awakener] to fight against [Moon Polluter] and the [Mother Goddess Integration] organization that comes from nowhere.
The moon brings not only pollution, but also a group of new extraordinary people who are awakening one after another. They are collectively called [Moon Enlighteners]
However, there is currently no evidence that people who are already extraordinary people cannot Become [Moon Starter]
But looking at it now, if the Moon Polluters continue to grow in this number, the Moon Awakeners will also be stretched thin.
The only good thing is that there are other extraordinary people who take the initiative to fight against the moon polluters to avoid more terrible consequences, just like the [Iki Island Incident].
Facts have proven that once a considerable number of lunar polluters hide and start to reproduce in large numbers, the earth will be polluted, showing lunar desertification, and countless monsters will swarm out from under the earth and attack humans. Civilization causes irreversible destruction.
This is the case with the Iki Island incident. Because the traditionalists were still dominant at that time, for various reasons, this incident indirectly led to the occurrence of the incident, causing the entire Iki Island to be polluted and completely transformed into a desert. A dead land, a restricted area for humans, where countless monsters lurk.
The Special Affairs Bureau also lost its opportunity and the traditionalist's order to rescue the "big shot" led to the death and injury of several extraordinary people, which contributed to the occurrence of the downfall. The extraordinary faction finally couldn't bear it anymore and overturned the table.
Kuroki Shinizumi belongs to the traditional sect that favors the extraordinary faction. After that, he became the new director that both sides could barely accept. As the leader recognized by most extraordinary people, Noguchi Yushi served as the deputy director and concurrently as the head of the operations section.
“Did Elvis (Chief of the Intelligence Section) do anything?”
“No, he was very cooperative and took the initiative to hand over a lot of intelligence work to me.”
"Continue to pay attention to him and find out what his relationship with Ricky and Prime Minister Abe is."
"Yes."
After watching Hirata leave the office, Kuroki sat back on his chair, opened the drawer, and put the file into the pile of almost identical files.
"Mother Goddess Unity, are you also a force from another world?" Kuroki looked at the moon map cards on the computer and said to himself.
(End of this chapter)