Chapter 126: Old and New Tokyo Alternate
The next day, the company was ready, and the scheduled bus drove to Anshin-in, and after a three-hour drive, they were about to enter New Tokyo.
The bus is a military bulletproof vehicle transferred from the wall of Dongzhou, and the driver is also a service soldier, and the threat coefficient of the new Tokyo itself is low, but on the way to pass through a large area of chaos in the "old Tokyo", it has to be guarded, and the military vehicle can minimize the risk.
Zhang Su finally checked the Anxin Hospital, locked the office door, and prepared to go out for a 14-day vacation in New Tokyo with the children!
"Well, let's go." Zhang Su said goodbye to everyone.
"Have a nice trip, friend!" Roy gave a thumbs up.
"I hope you are safe, please walk slowly." Mrs. Lina bowed deeply to Zhang Su.
The children are on summer vacation, and Mrs. Reina also takes this opportunity to go home, her own home, to visit her parents and relatives, and tell them about her own experience after Kobayashi's death.
"While you're away, I'll take care of the prisoners in the Anxin Academy." Lescorchine said lightly.
[Please walk slowly.] Bee and Euphalin looked at Zhang Su, who now seemed silent and sane.
"Goodbye, Elder Chief." Priscilla says goodbye to Tomi.
"Don't you have to go for a morning run...... Great......" Sayuri was very relieved to see that Katy was also gone.
On the other hand, Hasuki, Kati, and Mizuri are all excited to go to New Tokyo.
~" Lian Wu packed up and finally went home to have a look.
Zhang Su took out a to-do list and recorded what he would do after he went to New Tokyo, which was quite a lot.
[Task List:
1. Meet Edith and find out how it feels.
2. Take Mayuki on a tour of the University of New Tokyo.
3. Check out famous tourist spots such as zoos, aquariums, coffee shops, beef halls, playgrounds, sky trees, Kabukicho Ichiban Street, and museums.
4. Take Lianwu to see the Anxin Yuan Xiuxing and go back to the Anxin family for a trip.
5. Meet Chiyo Fujikawa and see if her quest to recapture the Fujikawa-gumi is going well.
6. Go to Shintokyo No. 1 Witch Prison to meet Mrs. Mitama Shinjo and reunite Komuro Hana with her mother.
7. Buy souvenirs and new clothes for the Red Flame Bodhisattva, and save some stories to tell the Red Flame.
8. See if the old house of the Lianyang family has been taken away.
9. Punch Ryosuke Matsudaira, the former director]
After sorting it out, Zhang Su found that this trip to New Tokyo was too fulfilling!
He thinks it's good, he has something to do every day, instead of walking around, and when he goes to New Tokyo, many things can be done.
Zhang Su named the children.
"Saho, Makyuki, Reo, Natsuki, Muroka, Enori...... It's all here, let's go! Zhang Su sent them to the car.
"Yay!" One by one, they boarded the military buses, and even such large transport vehicles were a novelty to them.
"That's amazing!" They took turns looking for seats, which were even reinforced, with five-point harnesses for a smooth ride and windows with double-layered bulletproof glass.
Zhang Su looked at their row of seats, and immediately distinguished the distance between the children.
Saho still worships Sister Lianyang, so she sits with Lianyang; Natsuki, Murohana, and Enori are three good friends, and they also sit together, and Enori holds the puppy Pepper; True Bow is relatively marginalized, as she basically doesn't appear on the same screen as everyone else.
Katie sat at the back, touching her stomach with both hands, intending to get through the long journey by sleeping.
Shui Li hung upside down on the top of the bus, and Lian Wu sat at the front, with Zhang Su.
The service driver started the engine and led everyone out of the hospital.
The vehicle staggered through the mountain road.
For a while, the children were all silent, except for Saho and Reo, who had seen it, Yuanori, Mayuki, and Natsuki were all seeing the outside world for the first time.
"It's too big! It's amazing! "Although Saho has come out, she is still so excited.
The bus crossed the main road of Gozencho and entered the highway, and she immediately pressed her face against the glass window.
Fashionable cars passed by them in a steady stream, and Natsuki looked back worriedly to find that the stone walls of the Anxin Temple, the Discipline Tower, and the prison administration building were long gone!
Mayuki gazed curiously at the outside world, comparing it to what he had learned from his textbooks.
Yuanzhi was a little motion sick, and Zhang Su walked through the aisle and hugged Yuanzhi to Katie at the back.
"Sleep, sleep, kitten...... It's gone in a flash......" Katie said in a hoarse voice, holding Yuanori in her arms, and they closed their eyes, hoping to ignore the fluctuations outside.
The bus drove to Niigata City, and the tall buildings on both sides once again refreshed Natsuki's cognition.
"It's time for New Tokyo!" She yelled.
"Not yet," Reo said with restraint, revealing her understanding of the outside world, "this is just Niigata City, a big city in the Echigo region, very close to us. β
"There's still half a day's drive, don't worry." Zhang Su was relieved.
Natsuki's expression is getting worse and worse, and she is a little sad because she has come to a completely unfamiliar place.
"Woohoo......" she began to sob.
"Teacher!" Enori shouted, "Natsuki, she'......"
Zhang Su had to take Xia Xi over, and by Zhang Su's side, she calmed down a little.
~" Lianwu took Xiao Natsuki into his arms.
Natsuki is a mixed-race child, and it's not obvious yet, but as she grows up, she looks more like a foreigner, with a small nose and pointed nose, and her hair is about to turn yellow.
Her mother, Pathia, is the "Sun" Break 5 Witch, who served in the Northern Theater of Ross, and took refuge in a battle against the demons, and in a final move to channel sunlight, she scorched a large number of friendly forces that were too close, resulting in a crushing defeat.
Natsuki received a large number of death threats when she was 1 year old, and the Witch Countermeasures Bureau was forced to transfer Natsuki several times, and finally sent her to Anxinyuan.
Perhaps it was the memories of her childhood wandering that hurt Natsuki, so much so that now she feels a certain primordial fear when she sees this "long-distance transfer".
Natsuki closed her eyes in Lian Mist's arms, and the bumpy vehicles and roaring engines made her feel uneasy.
"It's okay, it's okay, Natsuki, we're out playing." Zhang Su pinched Xia Xi's little face.
"Woo woo...... Natsuki closed her eyes and lay weakly in Lian Mist's arms.
"~" Lotus Mist shook Natsuki slightly.
She imitates the appearance of an adult with a child, although she doesn't know when she will be able to have a child and continue the bloodline for the Anxinin family.
The bus continued onto the Capital Expressway.
Zhang Su propped his elbows on the glass window.
Under the summer sun, the scenery on both sides can be seen unobstructed.
"Natsuki, take a look, it's beautiful outside." Zhang Su said.
Natsuki took a deep breath.
When she opened her eyes, the vehicle had just driven past a field of farmland, and in the distance were endless green rice fields.
Agricultural robots are cultivating rice, the village is lined with old dwellings, and the vermilion shrine gate attracts tourists.
Further on, the silhouette of Mt. Fugaku appears in the distance.
The majestic white snow-capped mountains are rolling and at the foot of the mountain is the famous sea of trees in Aokigahara, which is verdant as far as the eye can see.
As vehicles get closer to New Tokyo, idyllic countryside gives way to New Tokyo's vast suburbs, with concrete apartments and office buildings rising from the ground.
In the distance, there is a tall tower that has been cut off at the waist, and it is the former Tokyo Sky Tree, but it was destroyed during the war and has not been rebuilt.
"This is New Tokyo!" Natsuki yelled.
"Don't worry, this is still a relatively dilapidated place, once occupied by demons, and now it is still being rebuilt, and the real 'new Tokyo' is built in the bay, on the sea." Zhang Su pointed ahead.
Natsuki looked ahead.
An artificial marvel has emerged on the sea, with an endless metropolis skyline sprung up in the distance, and on the edge of the new Tokyo stand ornate commercial buildings, cast of glass and steel, glittering in the afternoon sun.
In order to meet the needs of reconstruction, the new city of Tokyo has become more three-dimensional and compact, with denser corridors, light rail routes and billboards, and a criss-crossing of electric lines and colorful wires, like a giant spider's web. The rich live at the top, enjoying the sunshine and rain, while the inferior residents live at the bottom and do not see the light of day.
Zhang Su tried to guide the children's eyes to look straight ahead, directly at the new Tokyo connected by the expressway, and over the scars of the old Tokyo on both sides.
Under the highway bridge, large ruins of old Tokyo are scattered like corpses of reinforced concrete.
Rusty beams cut through the collapsed buildings, and many neighborhoods were reduced to rubble and piles of melted glass, all relics of demonic warfare.
The old Tokyo area was almost abandoned, and it was divided into various industrial and agricultural lands, maintaining a large population and supporting the development of the new Tokyo, and at the same time forming the "underdeveloped zone around the new Tokyo".
Tin huts and temporary shelters known as "liao" are everywhere, and transport trucks owned by large corporations travel back and forth as if collecting materials, transporting groups of workers to industrial areas in large numbers.
The unemployed in the streets and alleys looked around with hatred, and the garrisons sent by the Human Defense Project stood guard in many places to maintain law and order. The only color comes from the recruitment poster of the Gates of Hell on Mount Kagura, calling on them to go to the front line to participate in the great war of humanity.
He glanced at the gray and gray old Tokyo on both sides.
Her family lives in a certain part of the old Shibuya district, and she thought that the area would develop after two years in prison, but it turned out to be full of ruins.
Many are working like ants, building the skeletons of new high-rise buildings and restoring some of the most valuable blocks of old Tokyo. Those towers were so high that they looked like golden gallows.
Old Tokyo is now spacious, people limp through the endless pale streets, no longer have to worry about being blocked by traffic, shops and houses are left alone, and the poor can find an empty room to stay.
Rei Yang thought of her family's old house, which was probably already crowded with homeless and undesirable men and women because her mother had been killed and she had been arrested. The thought sent her shudder.
As the bus drove onto the bridge, dense drones flew up from the sea on both sides, closely scanning vehicles and people.
If it was a license plate from the outside area, they would have to be persuaded to return, but fortunately they recognized the car as a human defense plan, and soon did not dare to disturb it, and left with a buzz.
"βThat's it! Now, we have officially entered the jurisdiction of New Tokyo. Zhang Su looked at it from afar.
(End of chapter)