Under One Person: The Puppet Immortal in the Tang Sect

"My lord, we cannot do things that are too obvious. But something a little more subtle..."

A sinister glint flashed in Taro Iwasaki's eyes.

Chapter 259 The Chaos of the Island Nation's Strange People

In 1941, the island nation was a prominent presence in the world.

While its military strength is rapidly increasing, its ambitions, which are not commensurate with it, are also expanding rapidly.

At this time, the island nation was in an awkward situation. While its military strength was formidable, its people's livelihood and logistics were in a terrible state.

In addition, the island nation is far removed from the eastern country, making domestic supplies difficult and the logistics lines too long.

With no other options, they had to find a solution in the occupied territories, and thus the puppet Manchukuo government came into being.

In July 1940, the island nation's prime minister, cabinet, and foreign minister put forward the slogan of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," forcing all island nation troops in Southeast Asia to implement a self-sufficient policy.

This policy not only greatly relaxed the constraints on the island nation's military, but also alleviated the logistical pressure on the island nation.

However, the various wartime policies applied to civilians within the country were not alleviated as a result.

On the contrary, in order to make them share the same goals and destiny with the island nation, the government has introduced a series of policies.

Workers are forced to work more than 12 hours a day, but their actual wages have shrunk significantly due to soaring prices.

Not only that, but they are also forced to deduct the amount of money used to purchase government bonds in order to prove their patriotism.

Meanwhile, the sons of wealthy tycoons live extremely luxurious lives.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

This applies not only to the Eastern Kingdom, but also to the social environment in which it exists.

The hatred between ordinary people and tycoons in the island nation is growing rapidly.

However, under the island nation's oppressive rule and rationing system, the common people have always been in an awkward situation where they neither starve to death nor have enough to eat.

In reality, as long as survival is guaranteed, the vast majority of people will not choose to resist.

However, within any group, there will always be some special groups.

It's like the Cursed Association, which has been hiding in the island nation for a long time.

Cui Ming was sitting in a specially prepared office, reviewing various documents collected by the Mitsubishi conglomerate.

After confirming that Cui Ming would use the Iwasaki residence as a temporary base in Tokyo, Iwasaki Taro immediately ordered the entire mansion to be renovated again.

In order to meet Cui Ming's need to access information about the island nation, a large number of people were mobilized to pack up and send over all the intelligence data on the island nation, large and small, that the Iwasaki family possessed in modern times.

And Cui Ming was in the garden of this Iwasaki residence.

While researching island nations to enrich his understanding of them, he waited for Taro Iwasaki to bring the other important Mitsubishi personnel to meet him, the new emperor of Mitsubishi.

The information Cui Ming is currently reviewing concerns the history of the development of the island nation's supernatural beings.

It must be said that most of Cui Ming's previous conjectures about the island nation's supernatural beings were correct.

The so-called eight million gods were actually just eight hundred innate extraordinary individuals.

After awakening, it was just a loose alliance that they had formed themselves.

These naturally gifted individuals once held absolute power in the island nation.

However, it was, after all, just a loose alliance of some idle and eccentric individuals.

In his time, Abe no Seimei, a genius nurtured by a family of Onmyoji, defeated them one by one, dividing and conquering them.

The alliance of idle individuals is, after all, far inferior to those aristocratic families with traditions and deep foundations.

These large families of Onmyoji use various rumors and misinformation to spread misinformation.

This caused the eight million civilians near the Alliance of Gods to become suspicious of them, and the rumors spread like wildfire.

These so-called eight million gods are being gradually demonized.

Most people with innate special abilities choose to stay away from people because of their unique characteristics. They may be poor at speaking or disdain to explain.

As a result, the rumors spread like wildfire.

This led to a situation where a group of ordinary people, based on speculation and appearance, drove a naturally gifted person with the ability to control water to his death.

This further intensified the conflict between the alliance of eight million gods and ordinary people.

The conflict, in turn, led to new developments in the rumors.

These so-called gods naturally became man-eating monsters and demons.

They even went so far as to slander it as an existence created solely for killing and murder.

This state of mutual hostility and conflict continued until Abe no Seimei developed a technique that allowed him to dismantle the souls of these naturally gifted individuals and create controllable shikigami...

Complete collapse!

Thus, the once invincible alliance of eight million gods fell to its lowest point and became a force to be reckoned with by everyone.

They were hunted by local Onmyoji families, driven to desperation in the name of the common people, under the guise of punishing evil and eliminating demons.

Even some ninja clans and samurai ronin took pleasure in killing them, exchanging the killing of eight million superhumans from the God Alliance for fame.

Don't they know that these are just people with innate superpowers who have awakened?

They knew perfectly well that reputation was far more important to these aristocratic families than the lives of these strangers.

For them, the loss of a naturally gifted person is merely a loss of life, but for them, it is the loss of a ladder to advancement!

However, such a propaganda offensive is not without its drawbacks. At one time, the awakening of innate supernatural abilities occurred among these aristocratic families.

That is an extremely rare occurrence. The appearance of each innate extraordinary person represents a possible leap forward for the family.

Moreover, most aristocratic families also pay attention to those with innate supernatural abilities who are found among the common people, and will definitely recruit them into their family once they are found.

However, after the incident involving eight million gods, most of the people who awakened their innate supernatural abilities were treated as demons and monsters and were directly killed after awakening.

A small number of innate extraordinary individuals who manage to break through the encirclement may experience a denial of their own identity and value, leading to various psychological problems.

Even those direct descendants of the family who awaken innate superpowers will be maliciously ostracized.

This leads to a loss of public opinion, criticism, and the complete loss of the possibility of becoming the head of the family, resulting in meaningless self-destruction within the family.

Thus began the second transvestite war unique to the island nation.

This time, it's different from the so-called idle alliance of eight million gods.

Among them are many innate extraordinary individuals who escaped from aristocratic families, as well as a large number of innate extraordinary individuals who fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

This group of people is much more reliable than the previous alliance of idle supernatural beings who had never experienced life and death and only sought a stable life.

They are all fighters who have suffered oppression in this world that is extremely unfriendly to people with innate superhuman abilities, and who are fighting for survival.

Moreover, they understood one thing from the very beginning from the remains of the eight million gods of the alliance.

If they don't fight their way out, these naturally gifted individuals will ultimately become puppets of these Onmyoji nobles.

Don't they like to call themselves superhumans monsters? They simply identify themselves as monsters and formed a monster alliance.

These people are all pragmatists; they've actually accomplished some truly remarkable things.

Because the leader of this group was none other than the famous Hagoromo Gitsune.

Under their counterattack, many cities fell and were taken over by these monster alliances.

In the end, the island nation's capital fell into the hands of this monster alliance, and in a short time, the monster alliance drove those powerful families who had once regarded them as livestock to flee in terror.

To avoid their attacks, many Onmyoji families even moved their entire families to safer places, such as deep mountains and forests.

Those who refused to leave mostly perished under the sword, while a few chose to join the monster alliance and eke out a living under their rule.

But then, an interesting twist occurred.

The people who ended this so-called chaotic world of monsters were also a group of naturally gifted individuals.

But what they had in common was that the leader of this group was born into a prominent family.

Fortunately, the family he was born into did not discriminate against or mistreat him because he was born with extraordinary abilities; on the contrary, they cared for him more.

This allowed him to thrive and safely navigate the most difficult period in the early stages.

Unfortunately, his family was ultimately swallowed up by the uprising of the monster alliance.

He became one of those recorded in history books who, amidst the chaos caused by monsters, suffered countless deaths and injuries.

This person, after many hardships, gathered a group of strange people who had been displaced due to the monster alliance.

They began their revenge against the Demon Alliance, and with the support and help of many Onmyoji families, they defeated the Demon Alliance.

From then on, those with innate supernatural abilities gained a certain degree of influence, but they could only disguise themselves and hide in the streets.

As Cui Ming looked at this thin record, his mind was filled with a myriad of thoughts.

Nurarihyon no Mago?

Wait, it's strange that such a secret is only recorded in this much detail.

Cui Ming waved his hand, and someone summoned Iwasaki Taro.

A short while later, a series of hurried footsteps approached.

The visitor stopped at the door, tidied himself up, and then knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Cui Mingzheng sat in his office, holding the book that recorded the chaos caused by strange people in the history of the island nation, and looked it over from head to toe.

Taro Iwasaki walked slowly into the office, bowed respectfully, and then asked in a low voice.

"My lord, you summoned me?"

"Of course, do you remember this thing?"

As Cui Ming spoke, he extended his hand forward, and the book, supported by Qi, slowly flew to Iwasaki Taro's front.

Taro Iwasaki carefully took the book with both hands, glanced at Cui Ming, and then examined the book in his hands.

Upon looking at it, Taro Iwasaki suddenly realized something.

A long-forgotten memory welled up in my mind.