mygo, but Cthulhu

"Don't look so depressed, Mingcheng. One of the reasons I came here this time was to catch up with you. After all, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

Mizono Watari smiled, then looked back with some nostalgia at Tokyo, where all the advertisements had disappeared and it looked a bit dilapidated.

"I still remember what happened decades ago. You, Ms. Tsuzuki, and that Kishi guy had a meal together. Back then, we were filled with the grand ideal of changing the world. We agreed to suppress these forbidden powers so that they would no longer harm humanity... It's truly unforgettable."

"Since it's already in the past, why do you still keep thinking about it? You broke up with Xianjuan'an and left Japan without any hesitation."

Hiroi Akinari spoke softly, and Mizono Watari shook his head vigorously in disapproval and patted his shoulder.

"You can't say that, my friend. Although I parted ways with Kishi because he prayed to Naya, and although I disregarded the people's rude actions and disappointed Ms. Tsuzuki...but, I did it for the sake of humanity. I don't want to do this, but I have to do it."

"When you say it's for humanity, do you mean using your capital to gradually control the University of Michigan so that I can research Rogot Marsh?"

Hiroi Akinari sneered,

"Watan, the thing I regret most in my life is agreeing to you... If it weren't for your madness, he wouldn't have been transformed to be so powerful, and the Church of the Deep wouldn't have expanded to this extent... This is all a sin of yours and mine."

"A crime? How can you say that, Mingcheng? I dare say that all this is our fault."

The man in the suit laughed, then stretched out his hand towards Tokyo outside the window, his voice full of contempt and sarcasm.

"Look at this city, Mingcheng. How many people has Rogot killed over the years? Only a thousand or two, at most. But due to Tsuzuki Shifune's connivance and weakness, these band girls destroyed the city in just one month, with over a million casualties."

"Xianjuan'an is the smartest man I've ever met, but even he indulges in the pathetic loneliness of humanity, even trying to seek a family that will never grieve. What I hate is not his deal with Naya, but his stupidity, his surrender to his own inferior nature."

"Mingcheng, do you know why everything has turned out like this? Because we humans are just like that. Those poor girls suddenly gained power, but they don't know how to use it. Their minds are trapped in the backward skin of humans. They don't know how to transcend their inherent cognition, how to overcome these obstacles."

"But... I did it in part. No, I should say, we did it in part."

His smile suddenly became distorted, and he held the old man's hand tightly. At the same time, half of his face cracked instantly, revealing the twisted and weird flesh and blood tissue underneath.

"You think Rogot is a monster, but I think he's the hope for a new direction of human evolution. Although his cognition and thinking don't meet my expectations, his body is exceptionally strong... This is exactly what humans should seek."

"Tsuzuki Shifune attempted to trap humanity in ignorant bliss, but she was wrong. Even if this dark, cold world doesn't exterminate humanity, it will still indulge in self-destruction. To save humanity, we must enable everyone to achieve a new evolution. This is our mission."

"This is your delusion,"

Hiroi Akinari pulled his hand away indifferently and responded softly without any courtesy, while Mizono Watari's excited expression froze instantly. His face twitched, but he still tried to suppress his anger and continued to smile.

"Why do you say that, my friend? Didn't you completely agree with my idea at the beginning? You even married a Deep One for my plan, and you brought back a lot of knowledge for me..."

"So I said, this is the thing I regret most in my life."

The old man sighed, then looked up at him indifferently.

"And I didn't come here today to listen to your crazy talk. I want to ask you to repay the favor you owe me. If it weren't for my plan, you would have been killed by Ms. Tsuzuki when you created the crime wave... You owe me a life, and now I demand your return."

"Of course, Mingcheng, I've always remembered this incident... So what do you want me to help you with?"

"Use your authority to dispatch enough transport ships to transport the food to Tokyo. I know this won't be difficult for you. You already have a plan for today's situation."

The priest spoke calmly, and after a moment of hesitation, Sanyuan Duguang couldn't help but laugh, his expression full of condescending sarcasm.

"Hahaha, did I hear you right? Mingcheng, you actually want to save so many people? You can get wealth from me that ordinary people can't imagine, but you want to waste it on these ignorant people.

"Want to do me a favor?"

"You just need to say whether you're willing to help or not. No more nonsense."

"To be honest, I am willing to help, but I really can't do what you ask."

After laughing enough, Sanyuan Duguang pressed the twitching limbs on his face back into his head and shook his head gently.

"Don't lie to me, you're from the Sanyuan Group..."

"You don't need to emphasize my status and power. I know better than you what I have... But if I do this now, it would be like being the first to speak out."

"What do you mean?"

"You're truly clueless about the current situation, Mingcheng. Do you think other countries won't react to such a major incident in Japan? The entire world's communications have been destroyed by the data storm. Won't other countries be terrified and panicked?"

Mizono Tokou curled the corners of his mouth and raised his hand to point towards the coastline, pointing outside of Japan.

"The mysterious power has been exposed to these nations, and they are eager to investigate. Humans are like this. The more fear they have, the more they want to explore... This is our strength, but also our fatal weakness."

"...I understand. If you go and rescue these people now, you will come into their sight."

The priest was silent for a moment and then sighed heavily, and Sanzono Tokou nodded. Realizing that he might not agree, the old man turned around tiredly and prepared to leave, but a moment later, another voice came from behind him.

"Mingcheng, there's hope for all of this... If you can do one thing for me, I can agree to your request."

"what's up?"

The priest turned around and looked at him, and the man laughed, with uncontrollable greed and madness on his face.

"Help me capture Toyokawa Shoko, the girl who is pregnant with Yuge's child... If you help me do this, I can give you whatever you want."

Chapter 288 Kayoko's suicide note

Yu Gu Youjia stared silently at the paper in her hand, and after a moment she sighed deeply. She looked up at the church in front of her, hesitated for a long time, and then slowly walked into it.

By this time, the sky had become much darker. She only saw an old priest with his back to her, looking up at the cross on the wall. She pursed her lips, but finally, suppressing her guilt and pain, she walked forward and spoke tentatively in a low voice.

"Excuse me...are you Kayoko's grandfather?"

"……Is there a problem?"

The old man paused for a moment before turning around. There was a complex emotion on his face that she didn't understand, but Youjia was not in the mood to care about it at the moment. She just handed the paper to him silently and lowered her head.

"I was Kayoko's classmate. She died trying to save me... I tried to find her body, but it was impossible. I only found this..."

"Kayoko?"

Hiroi Akinari was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously took the paper, and the first line of words that caught his eyes made his pupils shrink instantly and his breathing stagnated.

[Grandpa, by the time you see this, I will be dead. Please don't grieve for me. You once said that death is the end we all have to face.]

[I believed Xiangcheng's warning, so I left this suicide note... But in the last moments of my life, I still have something I want to say to you.]

Do you remember the question I asked you? I asked about your faith, and you chose to remain silent... I thought you hadn't thought of an answer, but now I understand that you actually don't believe in the existence of God at all.

"..."

The priest looked at the familiar handwriting in silence, and after a moment he couldn't help but smile weakly. He looked up at Yu Gu Youjia, but the girl's face showed nothing but depression and sadness. She just held her arms and stood there silently.

The old man sighed silently and continued to read the last trace left by his granddaughter. The handwriting she left was a little messy, and there was a hint of fear in her haste... This was the best she could do in the face of death.

[Grandpa, after I left, I had a dream during a brief sleep. I dreamed of my missing father, who had transformed into a strange fish-man. He called out to me, telling me to abandon everything else and follow his guidance to escape from here.]

[…I know he's right. If I stay, I'll surely die. But I can't abandon my classmates… I hope there's a kind god in this world, just like the kind humans imagine in religion, not the cold reality my father describes… However, I also understand that the God humans imagine doesn't exist. It's just a lie they tell to comfort themselves.]

[But even if they are lies, they still have value in existence, just as funerals are not for the rest of the dead, but for the pain of the living... Our beliefs are all false, but they are beautiful, and that is enough for me.]

"Kayoko..."

Seeing this, Hiroi Akinari couldn't help but tremble. He could no longer suppress his pain, and covered his face and cried softly. At the same time, he still continued to read eagerly, hoping to know her last thoughts before she died.

"Grandpa, I now understand your thoughts. You never believed in the Lord, and every time you prayed, you were filled with self-blame and torment... I don't know what you did in the past, but the person I know saved many people. You have always been the grandpa I admired."

[Stick to your ideals and don't let reality sway you. I don't want you to wallow in regret any longer... The only ones who can save us are ourselves.]

The hurried handwriting ended here, and Hiroi Akinari stared blankly at the suicide note in his hand. He clenched his teeth, and the pain that had been suppressed until now finally broke out, tearing at his mind.

"If it weren't for Kayoko's efforts, we wouldn't be alive today... I'm sorry, old man..."

Yu Gu Youjia spoke in a low voice, trying hard to hold back her tears, and the priest stared at the handwriting silently. After a long silence, he turned around and put the suicide note into the drawer. After turning around again, the girl unexpectedly found that his eyes became cold and determined, as if he had made some kind of decision.

"Thank you for bringing me her suicide note. I was hesitant before... but now I've made up my mind. If she can die to save more people, then I don't mind committing a crime to do so... Sometimes, greater redemption must be based on sin."

"I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean..."

"It's okay, I just want to tell people what I think."

Hiroi Akinari gave a tired and complicated smile, and then there was a gentle knock on the church door.

"Excuse me, is anyone there? Father Hiroi, we would like to ask you something, is that alright?"

Mei Zhulan knocked on the door and spoke softly tentatively. A moment later, the door in front of her was suddenly opened. She was stunned for a moment after meeting the old man's calm gaze, and he also spoke calmly first.

"I know why you're here, and I also know what you want to ask... I do have some connection with Rogot, but he didn't kill Mr. Udagawa. Someone deliberately framed him."

"Do you know who the murderer is?"

"I know, but if you want to get an answer, you must agree to one condition of mine first."

The priest responded softly, and Mei Zhulan couldn't help but frown slightly.

"That depends on the conditions. If they are within our acceptable range, we certainly won't refuse."

"The conditions are simple... You just need to tell me the approximate location of the Mygo and Mujica members, and I won't tell anyone that it was you who told me. Everything that happens after that has nothing to do with you... Are you willing to agree?"

"...What are you looking for them for?"

After a moment's silence, Mei Zhulan asked cautiously, and the old man just smiled bitterly.

"To sacrifice them so that those still alive in Tokyo don't die from food shortages... That's my purpose."

"In that case, we still need to think about it before we can answer you. Sorry."

"It's okay, I'll wait."

The priest nodded slightly, and Mizukami sighed. She said goodbye to him, pulled up her hood, turned around and left with a complicated expression, feeling hesitant about the decision in her heart.

At the same time, a camera that should have been burned by the data storm suddenly moved. It slowly turned to observe the priest, Mizukami, and the others. The abnormal electrical signal entrenched in it hummed inexplicably, and then converged along the internal line into the cracks of the Tokyo network, flowing into a mass of unstable

The chaotic data.

After a moment, they slowly condensed into a purple-haired girl. She slowly opened her eyes in the fictional cyberspace. After a moment of confusion, a message flashed through her consciousness, and she subconsciously reflected incomprehensible doubts.

"Mygo... mujica? What is this? Why... is my data messed up?"

Chapter 289 Coping

On the top of the headquarters building of the Xianjuan Group, Xianjuanxin calmly looked down at the ruined Tokyo. Around her was the mess left by the explosion, and there were even bloodstains that had not been cleaned up in time, but she didn't care about it at all. She just raised her hand out of the window and felt the breeze passing through her fingertips.

A moment later, Ozawa Misaki eagerly walked into the room with the organized data. Before she could speak, Genmaki Shin spoke first, as expected.

"Even if we add all our food reserves, it can only last for a week at most. There's no way we can last until shipping is restored, right?"

"Yes... Tokyo is a huge city after all. Even with so many deaths, there are still over eight million people in Tokyo. The daily food consumption is a terrifying figure... Xin, do you have any ideas?"

Misaki asked weakly, and Genmaki shook her head slightly.

"If we don't forcibly seize the food from that congress, then I have no other options. Those guys should have stored food... but in this situation, they won't be able to take much. Even if we kill them all, I'm afraid there still won't be enough food."

"Then what should we do..."

Hearing her words, Misaki felt dizzy and even couldn't stand for a moment. She tremblingly held onto the wall to avoid falling. Genmaki Shin also noticed her reaction at this time, turned around and walked over to pat her shoulder comfortingly.

"Don't worry, Misaki. Although the situation isn't optimistic, it's not completely hopeless yet... I believe there will be a turning point soon."

"Heart...how can you be sure?"

"Because from now on, I have taken control of the entire Genjutsu Group. To the Toyokawa family, I am no longer the simple young lady I was before, but the leader of another faction."

Xian Juanxin smiled.

"As the first force to defect from the committee, they must have made preparations long ago... I'm sure they have enough food. If they so choose, the crisis in Tokyo can end at any time."

"Then why don't they hurry up...are they trying to profit from this?"

Ozawa Misaki spoke subconsciously, and when she realized what was happening, her eyes widened. The blonde girl nodded slightly and turned her gaze to the sky outside the window.

"Indeed, this is a golden opportunity for them. The government is in chaos, the committee has collapsed, and now they are the only powerful force in Tokyo besides us... If they take advantage of the food crisis, they can exchange food that was once commonplace for an entire city. Then, they can use this to control all of Japan."

"But countless people will die in the process... These damn scumbags are willing to use the lives of so many innocent people to satisfy their greed..."

Misaki Ozawa clenched her teeth, and Shin Genmaki shrugged helplessly. Then she looked down at her watch and nodded calmly.

"It's almost time, the turning point should be coming."

"Boom,"

As soon as she finished speaking, I knocked on the door, and the respectful voice of the man in black was heard.

"Miss Xin, the CIA, KGB, MI6, and other agents from different countries are here. They want to meet with you. Do you want to let them in?"

"Let them in. I'm waiting for them."

Xianjuanxin smiled and pulled the somewhat confused Misaki to sit next to her. She also opened a bottle of red wine and poured it into a few glasses, then slowly added Coke into them.

"We actually need to notify you when we want to see you. This is really affecting efficiency, Miss Xianjuan. Right now, people are suffering every minute because of this disaster, and yet you still care about this formality."

The next moment, the CIA man pushed open the door and walked into the room. He glanced at Xian Juanxin and said something with a hint of dissatisfaction, and the girl just smiled casually.

"Really? Hearing you say that, I thought you cared deeply about the lives of the Japanese people... Actually, you came here to get information from me, right? After all, the entire Mossad team committed suicide for reasons you can't understand, so it's understandable that you're afraid."

"You better watch your tone, Japanese,"