Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Two: Disaster Strikes
Japan, Tokyo, Minato City, Tokyo Tower.
This tower, which had stood for over sixty years, was now teetering in the wind and rain.
But the upper floors of this tower, shrouded in darkness, were flashing with lights. The faint glimmer flickered in the night, as if it would be extinguished by the storm at any moment.
It seemed that a crowd of densely packed figures lit the bright lights on the upper floors of the tower, like a lighthouse.
On the large observation deck 150 meters up Tokyo Tower, densely packed figures almost filled the space. These were almost all people from the Ino Cult, wearing Japanese ceremonial clothing.
The storm battered the windows of the observation deck. Besides the violent pounding of the rain, there was also the hum of the generator. Other than that, the people standing here made no sound.
On the side of the observation deck facing the sea, a person held a searchlight high, illuminating a certain direction.
It could be seen that the direction illuminated by the searchlight was the seaside…
The coastline had long since disappeared, and tsunamis over twenty meters high continuously battered the buildings on the shore.
This terrifying natural disaster, like nature’s revenge on humanity, turned its giant mouth into waves again and again to impact the city, dragging all the debris of the city into the seabed.
The buildings near the sea had basically been smashed, and humans could not stand there at all.
But there was a figure, like a pillar of the sea, standing quietly on the coast. No matter how high the waves hit it, it could not be shaken in the slightest.
“High Priest, let me take the lamp to a higher level. There is a special observation deck above. I will welcome His return from a higher place!”
A girl wearing a red and white witch costume, her eyes flashing with blood-red light, said fanatically to a woman kneeling by the wall with her head down.
The woman slowly lifted her eyelids and looked at the girl, with a look of despair on her face.
She was the one who created the Ino Cult, and also the only person in the Ino Cult who knew that the Ino God was made up – Igarashi.
She had a look of despair on her face for a reason.
Not long ago, she represented the Ino Cult and participated in the joint summit meeting of major organizations in Tokyo, and reached a consensus at the meeting.
That was to form a powerful alliance to fight against the increasingly terrifying natural disasters and the crisis of seabed zombies landing.
The rainstorm in Tokyo was getting heavier and heavier, and it had almost reached the point where people could not live. Other organizations had already discussed and decided to preserve their strength, take all the supplies from Tokyo, and retreat to Saitama Prefecture.
The leaders of other organizations all felt that this was a good idea, and even Igarashi thought about retreating first…
But she obviously underestimated the influence and fanaticism of the cult she had single-handedly created.
All the believers, headed by the B-rank girl Chida Rei, firmly expressed their opposition when they heard that they were going to evacuate, and claimed that they would rather die than leave the Ino God.
Then, Igarashi was forced to stay.
She always felt that even if she said now that the Ino Cult was a religion she had made up before the apocalypse, she would definitely be burned to death by these fanatics as a “demon”.
They had completely gone mad, firmly tying themselves to the banner of religion in the precarious apocalypse, and firmly believing that it was faith that saved them.
Igarashi did not reply to the girl, but looked up at the surroundings.
These people standing in front of her, looking at the distant figure on the observation deck, were all emaciated and basically only relied on rainwater to satisfy their hunger.
Although Tokyo was not completely submerged, the waves crashing again and again had made the bottom no different from being submerged.
Damn it… in the end, why was she still staying in this dangerous place!!! Was it just because she was the High Priest?
“Sigh…” Igarashi sighed softly and waved her hand, “Go.”
Being forced to stay in this dangerous place, Igarashi already felt very tormented.
Now, she didn’t want to talk to the chuunibyou girl in front of her who called herself “I” and addressed others as “you”.
Other believers here were like lunatics, only this girl seemed out of place because of her pronouns – like a silly otaku.
“Yes! High Priest!” After Chida Rei responded excitedly, she immediately left and ran towards the sightseeing elevator. After opening the elevator door, she directly turned into a red streamer and flew upwards.
One less annoying character, Igarashi sighed and lowered her head again, preparing to take a nap.
Although there was a shortage of supplies above, because of her status, the few supplies were used to support her, at least she didn’t have to worry about food and drink here.
Except for the occasional earthquake that made her feel like Tokyo Tower was about to collapse, everything else was fine.
“The giant wave devours thousands of wills and tens of thousands of lives…”
Before Igarashi could close her eyes for long, the believers began to sing the hymn she had adapted, which was terribly out of tune…
Igarashi felt that her spirit was about to collapse.
Just as she took a deep breath and was about to yell, telling everyone to shut up and rest, before she could speak, the singing suddenly stopped, and the crowd became restless.
What happened?
“It moved!”
“The Ino God moved!”
“He finally responded to our call!”
“God, please save me!”
The crowd rushed towards the edge of the observation deck, and some even fainted on the spot because they were too excited.
Hearing the words of the believers, Igarashi also quickly got up and looked in the direction of the Ino God through the window.
It could be seen that the huge Ino God, after another wave almost as tall as itself hit it, slowly shrugged its shoulders… as if it was moving its joints.
And in the rain, a blood-red streamer also cut through the dark night sky and flew towards the Ino God.
At the same time, Lin Jiayao, who had just chosen to log into No. 5, was controlling the No. 5 purple-skinned giant zombie and slowly opened her eyes.
As soon as she opened her eyes, Lin Jiayao only saw ruins.
White waves, carrying a large amount of construction debris, swallowed these things into the sea like a “low tide”.
And not long after, with a slight earthquake, another huge tsunami hit, and the force of the tsunami almost made Lin Jiayao stagger.
It was clearly just a giant wave nearly ten meters high before she retreated last time… had it already developed into such a terrifying tsunami?
And the surrounding buildings had all been flattened by the violent tsunami, the waves were constantly eroding the coastline, Tokyo under the rain was also dark, and there were almost no humans or zombies.
But in the distance, Lin Jiayao saw a hazy tower, and there was a shining light on top of the tower, like a lighthouse.
And in the direction of the “lighthouse”, as Lin Jiayao watched, a red light quickly shot towards her.
Was it… B-rank?!
Lin Jiayao, who had almost forgotten the situation in Japan, quickly raised her right palm, and was about to release the terrifying blood crystal pressure when the red light flying towards her in the air suddenly stopped in front of a building that hadn’t collapsed yet.
The red light disappeared, and Lin Jiayao could see a girl in a red and white witch costume. At this time, she was on the roof of the building, sliding on her knees because of inertia.
When she was about to fall to the ground, she barely stopped the sliding, and knelt down on the spot in a seiza position.
It was only now that Lin Jiayao recalled some of the things she had encountered in Japan.
So it was the people from that religion… did they still regard her as a god?
And, in such violent weather, why were these people still here and hadn’t left?
“Rumble—”
The ground beneath her feet shook again. This time, the tremor was even stronger, and Lin Jiayao could even feel where the epicenter was.
It wasn’t in the sea… the epicenter was from the island… and it was very close to Tokyo…
It had only been a minute since she logged in, and Japan showed Lin Jiayao what a real apocalypse was.
It was almost early morning, but the sky was still dark and chaotic, and only a few rays of light could be seen through the gaps in the dark clouds.
She always felt that something bad would happen in Japan…
Lin Jiayao thought so, and looked at the surrounding Extraction Points.
To Lin Jiayao’s surprise, this time, the Extraction Points were not in the four directions of east, south, west, and north.
Towards Chiba Prefecture… no, it should be said that towards the sea, there were no Extraction Points…
That place had been listed by the system as an area where even the system could not survive safely.
Now there was no doubt, there must be terrifying seabed creatures, at least B-rank or above.
No longer looking towards the sea, Lin Jiayao looked at the other four Extraction Points and the extraction time.
She didn’t look carefully just now, just glanced at the direction. Now after Lin Jiayao clearly saw the Extraction Points and the extraction time, she frowned slightly.
[Nagoya TV Tower Extraction Point: 357.5km]
[Fukushima Racecourse Extraction Point: 365.3km]
[Toyo Eiwa University Extraction Point: 36.6km]
[Tomiya Mountain Observation Deck Extraction Point: 102.3km]
[Extraction Time 11:58:44]
Lin Jiayao: “?”
Did she see it wrong?
12 hours of extraction time?
Extraction locations more than 300 kilometers away?!
Could she fly?
Hello? System?
Was the system really going to make her run for 12 hours without sleep?
This was really the first time Lin Jiayao had encountered such a long extraction time, so long that Lin Jiayao even felt that the system had a bug.
But after confirming several times, Lin Jiayao was sure that the system did not have a bug.
More than three hundred kilometers… more than thirty kilometers…
Lin Jiayao could only be thankful that she could still choose now, she could choose to only extract to the nearest place…
But was it really that simple?
The nearest place was indeed the easiest, but the relative danger was greater – that was the way the system often judged, the shorter the extraction distance, the longer the extraction time, and the more dangerous it was in the middle.
To be on the safe side, Lin Jiayao had better choose a compromise and go to the Tomiya Mountain Observation Deck 102.3 kilometers away to extract.
Let’s do it this way.
She could also reserve some time in the middle to investigate the situation by the sea. No. 5 was B-rank, and it was also a defensive and self-healing type. There shouldn’t be any major problems investigating by the sea.
Just when Lin Jiayao finished thinking and raised her leg to move towards the fourth Extraction Point, she suddenly stopped.
She felt a strange vibration.
“Rumble—”
A thunderbolt struck between the dark clouds, and a huge lightning pillar struck the distant mountains. Along with the deafening thunder, there were continuous ground vibrations.
It seemed that a big earthquake was coming…
The violent vibrations began to make the tall buildings in Tokyo shake, and even the distant Tokyo Tower made a tooth-aching sound of twisting steel.
And this vibration did not stop, but became more and more intense.
Under such violent vibrations, even the continuous tsunami stopped, and the seawater was shaking violently.
Lin Jiayao turned her head slightly, feeling the vibration, and looked in the direction of the epicenter.
Even with the rain blocking her view, she could still vaguely see a huge mountain range covered with snow…
Mount Fuji?
Just as this name appeared in Lin Jiayao’s mind, she heard a sudden sound.
“Boom—!”
This sound, as if a god had slammed the ground fiercely with a giant hammer, after a huge muffled sound, a blazing fire, along with countless volcanic ash, suddenly erupted from Mount Fuji.
“Boom—!”
Under the continuous earthquakes and the giant lightning pillar just now, this active volcano that had been dormant for more than three hundred years finally erupted.
The splashing orange-red lava was like a giant sword, as if it wanted to pierce the sky. Countless lava was sprayed into the sky, along with a huge amount of volcanic ash.
After the volcanic eruption, the shock wave caused by the eruption of Mount Fuji followed, making the already overwhelmed Tokyo Tower slowly tilt.
The volcanic ash from the volcanic eruption rushed to a height of more than twenty kilometers, and had completely connected with the dark clouds in the sky, and it was impossible to know where its upper limit was.
In front of the terrifying volcanic eruption, No. 5, which Lin Jiayao was controlling, was as small as an ant…
Not only was Lin Jiayao dumbfounded after seeing the giant volcanic eruption, but also everyone in Japan who could see this volcano.
Mount Fuji… actually erupted?
It was conceivable that such a huge amount of volcanic ash would definitely fill the area within a radius of one or two hundred kilometers with thick volcanic ash.
Tokyo, which was only 80 kilometers away from Mount Fuji in a straight line, would become a forbidden zone for life because of the volcanic ash filling the sky.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions… apocalyptic scenes were staged one after another in Japan. This island nation, which was originally isolated and helpless, was now like a lonely boat in the stormy waves, in danger of capsizing at any time.
No, run quickly, although she couldn’t operate two lines at the same time now, at least run out of 100 kilometers first!
Just when Lin Jiayao was preparing to control No. 5’s huge body to escape from this terrifying disaster area.
A red light flashed onto Lin Jiayao’s broad shoulder.
Lin Jiayao turned her head and saw a girl in a red and white witch costume kneeling on her shoulder, looking at her with pleading eyes in panic, pointing in a certain direction, and saying something in Japanese that Lin Jiayao couldn’t understand.
Following the direction of her finger, Lin Jiayao saw Tokyo Tower, which was slowly bending and falling to one side.
The tower was not far from her. Lin Jiayao, with her greatly enhanced eyesight, could clearly see that there were densely packed people in the middle of the tower, all wearing almost the same clothes.
Were they those believers?
Was this girl asking her to save them?