Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 432 202: Moon Cocoon

"I can only take you so far at best. No matter how much money you give me, I can't take you on the rest of the way."

At night, on a fishing boat sailing on the sea with the flag of the South Korea flying, the captain spoke in broken Japanese to an old man in a diving suit.

"This set of equipment is enough to take you to Iki Island, but after that, everything has nothing to do with us, and we will not acknowledge your presence on our ship."

"I understand." The made-up emperor looked at the faintly visible island in the distance, and his heart began to beat wildly.

When death was imminent, he began to shrink back a little.

He was afraid that there would be problems with the equipment and he would die on the road. He was afraid that he would be intercepted by patrol ships and sent to Noguchi Takeshi. He was even more afraid that the Mother Goddess was a group of unreasonable monsters who would not give him any chance to communicate.

After thinking about it, he really stood there, his expression changing constantly and his steps hesitant to move forward.

How about we just leave it at that?
Anyway, he had a lot of money left, enough to live comfortably for several lifetimes.

Perhaps you can also take refuge in the kingdom of nature and hope for longevity.

"Captain, the patrol has issued a second warning to us!"

The crew's anxious words came over the intercom.

"Are you going or not? The window period is almost over. If you don't get off now, I won't be able to get away when the patrol boat comes!" The captain frowned and urged the old man when he saw that he didn't move for a long time.

The emperor gritted his teeth and said, "Go, for the glory of my family and the future of my country!"

After saying that, he pushed the heavy underwater propeller and dived into the water.

The captain was stunned for a few seconds, then waved his hand and said, "Forget about being crazy. Why bother with a dead person? You actually dared to go to Iki Island. You really don't know how to live or die. I don't know how many adventurers like you have died over the years. You are so old, but you still have so much money. You really don't know how to cherish it."

After receiving the third warning, the fishing boat apologized repeatedly and sailed quickly away from the island.

"Hey, why is the moon so bright today?"

The captain glanced quickly and cautiously at the two shining moons in the night sky in confusion. In his 27-year fishing career, he had seen red tides, noctilucent algae, and even the aurora reflected on the sea surface, but the brightness at this moment was enough to make the copper rust on the ship's bell glow a cold blue.

It's so unusual.

But this is obviously not something he should worry about. If the sky falls, it will probably hit Japan first.

"Oh my god! Don't even look at the moon! Have you forgotten that this is Japanese waters?!"

The shouting and cursing from the boat could not reach the bottom of the sea.

After entering the water, the Emperor followed the set navigation and used boosters to stay about ten meters above the seabed and move towards the target.

Today's batteries have a very high energy density, so this booster, which looks even smaller than a human, can carry him nearly ten nautical miles at a fairly high speed.

However, this is the limit of this booster, so he installed a battery to extend the battery life so that there will be some extra power.

In order to save oxygen, he needs to surface from time to time and breathe air.

After more than two hours of physical and mental torture, his old bones finally arrived at the beach near Iki Island.

He also dared to emerge from the bottom of the sea and rush towards the coast.

"Finally, finally here!"

"Hoohoo. The battery is almost out."

He looked at the desert in front of him after a massive bombing. White fog was everywhere and the naked eye could only see a few meters away.

He quickly took out the clothes from the vacuum bag, changed into his diving suit, and then ran inside desperately.

He knew that there must be people in the Special Affairs Bureau monitoring Iki Island around the clock, and his landing on the island might have been reported. The only one who could save him now was the Mother Goddess!

"You just want some insignificant islands. I'm not as stingy as the Special Affairs Bureau. If you want it, just give it to me. Even if it's Hokkaido, as long as it can help me consolidate my position, I will fully support it." He spoke in a high voice, as if he was talking to himself, but also as if he was deliberately speaking to others.

But no one seemed to pay any attention to him, and he had no choice but to speak louder and louder.

After more than ten minutes, he finally saw someone?
He saw Hiro Ozaki standing with a smile on his face in a desert open space without any white fog, as if he was waiting for him.

"Isn't this His Majesty the Emperor? What a distinguished guest we are meeting." Hiroshi Ozaki had a big smile on his face as he looked up and down at this big man who was once out of his reach.

The Emperor did not know Ozaki Hiro, nor did he know that he had once been a member of the Special Affairs Bureau, and he was even less aware that it was Kawakami Tatsuya, with whom he had cooperated, who broke into the Kyoto Imperial Palace at night, causing him to flee in a panic following a mysterious man.

"If I remember correctly, it seems that our relationship is not good enough for Your Majesty to come here regardless of everything. So, what do you want, Your Majesty?" Ozaki Hiro suppressed the impulse of his left hand and did not let the emotional Kawakami Tatsuya come out immediately.

The emperor pretended to remain calm and tried to maintain the last bit of his dignity, but he didn't know that after abandoning his children and fleeing, not a single bit of his dignity was left.

"I'm here to discuss cooperation. Can you make the decision on the Mother Goddess' unification?"

"Of course, the one who can make the decision is the Mother Goddess, but if the Emperor wants to say something about cooperation, I can also convey it for you."

The Emperor looked around and asked: "Should we talk about this here?"

"No hurry, no hurry, we are waiting for someone." Hiro Ozaki looked in the other direction in the white fog.

"We?" The Emperor frowned. Wasn't he the only one waiting for someone? Could he be included in the list?

Ozaki Hiro did not answer him, and the emperor was annoyed, but this was someone else's territory, and he had no right to say anything. Even though he was exhausted, he had to grit his teeth and continue standing.

After a while, a cat came out of the white mist and landed silently on the ground.

The azure cat eyes looked calmly at Ozaki Hiro in front of them, and glanced at the slightly uneasy Emperor on the side with a little surprise.

"Welcome home. Goddess Kasahara will always open her tender arms to you."

Hiro Ozaki spoke in a high-pitched voice, his eyes filled with excitement.

Kasahara Chiba transformed back into human form, and the Special Affairs Bureau uniform almost gave the Emperor a cardiac arrest.

"She, she, she!" The emperor trembled his fingers, not knowing what to say.

Both of them ignored him. Why should they care about a dying man?

"Kawakami, I leave this guy to you. We'll be waiting for you inside. Don't waste too much time." Ozaki Hiro smiled and faced the emperor, stretching out his left hand.

The left hand was seen twisting and deforming strangely, and quickly changed into a human form, separating from Ozaki Hiro's body.

Kawakami Tatsuya never expected that the person he had always wanted to kill would just wait for his chance and foolishly bump into him.

Really lucky.

"You, what do you want to do? I am the emperor! I can bring you a legitimate reputation!" Although the emperor was not quite clear about Kawakami's identity and the meaning of what Ozaki Hiro had just said.

But he could also feel the cold murderous intent lingering around his neck.

"Don't you want territory? Tsushima Island and Hokkaido? Is that enough? I can give you Shikoku and Kyushu! Let me see the Mother Goddess! I am useful, I am still useful!" The emperor faced death again, and the regret in his heart was like liquid in a broken glass bottle, pouring out uncontrollably.

Why am I so stupid? Why am I here? These crazy people under the control of the Mother Goddess are really stupid people who cannot cooperate! It would be a good idea to be a rich man and enjoy my old age.
In fact, he is such a person. Once he escapes from the situation of death, he can't stop thinking about the past, thinking about the so-called status and power - these things he didn't have much of before.

Now that the extraordinary has arrived, he naively thinks he can get to the table and is slow to face reality.

Tatsuya Kawakami stood in front of him, raised the "shotgun" in his hand, and put in two bags of iron sand bullets in front of him.

"do you know?"

"It was me who killed Abe Koichi."

"It was me who attacked the Kyoto Imperial Palace."

"You are so stupid."

The emperor's face quickly turned dull.

He could never have imagined that he was like a fish that disliked the ocean for being too dangerous, so he jumped onto the shore and then took the initiative to jump to someone else's chopping board. The next second, he would become a fish with no life left.

"In other words, wasn't that a play directed and acted by Noguchi himself?" He murmured foolishly.

"Ha, ha, ha." Kawakami Tatsuya couldn't help laughing, and then raised his gun towards him calmly, "The emperor who failed to protect the people and even disregarded the lives of us civilians, and colluded with the chaebols and the aristocratic families, you should have died long ago."

"Don't! That's not me—"

boom!
A piercing sound took away his last words.

Under the moonlight, his body was pierced all over by iron sand bullets like raindrops, and large amounts of blood splattered on the moon desert on the ground. The amount of blood was so large that the moon desert was splashed with dust.

Tatsuya Kawakami calmly put away his gun and walked towards the mother nest with a sense of relief that the matter was resolved.

The sea area outside Iki Island.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force received an urgent notice from the Special Affairs Bureau, and the three remaining destroyers set out from the nearest port to launch a new round of shelling on Iki Island.

"Bridge, this is fire control! Requesting launch authorization, over!"

"Fire Control Center, this is the bridge. Authorization to use the main guns, firing mode: switch to full automatic coverage after three rounds of calibration. Execute!"

"Received! All ships ready for attack!"

The guns of the three destroyers roared continuously, and the high-explosive shells they loaded smashed into the ships as usual.
No, it was very calm. The shells hit Iki Island without causing any ripples.

The high-explosive bomb seemed to have misfired and plunged into the white fog of Iki Island without any sound or ripples.

This strange situation forced the captain to stop firing immediately after a few rounds of shooting.

"Look up." Someone suddenly said.

"This"

In the night sky, the moonlight hung down like silk threads, changing from invisible to visible, and slowly and gently fell on Iki Island, making Iki Island seem like a "moon on land" or a giant cocoon that was gradually getting thicker.

What kind of terrifying creature could be born from such a huge moonlight cocoon?
Is the day when Japan will be destroyed?

The captain stared blankly until his subordinates reminded him.

"Captain, Captain! The shells we fired turned around and reflected back!!" the adjutant shouted loudly.

"Start interference interception!"

"Directional interference failed! The warhead does not carry an electronic fuse - prepare for hard kill!"

"Ride hard to right! Turn the ship sideways to create an inclined plane to meet the missiles!"

Boom!
The high-explosive bombs exploded on the hull and the nearby sea surface, forming a spectacular barrage that enveloped the three destroyers.

The destroyer was hit by the shells it had just fired, and a huge fire broke out on the ship.

Perhaps one of the ships had just fired too many shells, and this time the hull was directly broken by the explosion. It slowly sank with screams.

"Rescue!! Ahem! Rescue our friendly forces! Quickly notify the rescue team!"

The experience of the Maritime Self-Defense Force was soon reported to the Special Affairs Bureau. Noguchi Takeshi looked at the images sent back with a serious look.

"Just now, threads of moonlight fell from the sky, surrounding Iki Island. The shells fired by the three destroyers were all reflected back, causing heavy losses. For at least three months, we will almost lose our conventional surface attack capabilities."

"But Iki Island is not far from the main island. We can launch an attack directly from the main island."

"We must not let Iki Island successfully form its cocoon!"

"If necessary, I will request nuclear assistance."

Takeshi Noguchi knew that the Mother Goddess's unification would definitely result in a big move, but right now this big move was still a bit scary.

In culture, the word cocoon carries the meanings of gestation and transformation into a butterfly, and the cocoon transformed by the so-called Mother Goddess is most likely intended to cultivate an even more terrifying existence.

What he could think of was the Moon Mappers that were collected by the Mother Goddess.

Especially since one of the members of Kasahara Chiba's group left six hours ago, it is estimated that it is too late to arrive at Iki Island now.

Guan Junyan, who had just returned from Hokkaido with Noguchi, had a heavy face and his eyes looked a little empty.

Saga patted his shoulder, silently comforting him.

"The Heaven Node takes this incident very seriously. They believe that this is not only a threat to Japan, but also a threat to all of humanity, so they will organize people to come as soon as possible." Kuroki cheered up and told everyone the good news, "But before that, we must hold on."

"No one knows what will emerge from the cocoon and when, so we need to be fully prepared. Takashima, do you have any questions?"

As Kuroki was speaking, he saw Takashima Yumi raise her hand, as if she wanted to say something.

"Seven days." She specified a time period. "Before the meeting, Augustus called me and said that the 'Anti-Chosen' unified by the Mother Goddess would be reshaped within seven days at the earliest."

"I wasn't sure what he was talking about at first, but now it seems he was referring to this cocoon."

Fengchuan Shangqing curled his lips: "Augustus of the Soul Assembly. Can their words be trusted?"

"If he also needs us to work together to deal with this 'anti-chosen one' he mentioned, there is no need for him to lie." Hei Mu analyzed rationally.

"But over there in the Heavenly Node"

"I will explain to them. If he says seven days, we will arrange it according to the standard of five days." Takeshi Noguchi stood up.

"Everyone, be prepared. The Tokyo Demon was just food that the Mother Goddess wanted to absorb. Now, what we are about to face may be..."

“His true self.”

(End of this chapter)