Tokyo: The Player Behind the Scenes

"Yes, Mr. Collins."

"Okay, okay, oh, so that must be Tokyo Tower."

Collins shook his head, looked out the window, and saw the Tokyo Tower.

“That’s right, we’re passing through Shiba Park now. Is this your first time in Tokyo, Mr. Collins?”

"Yes, I've heard so much about you. I've wanted to come but never had the time. Now I'm finally able to take advantage of this work opportunity to come and visit."

"Then please take advantage of your free time these next few days, Your Excellency Collins. If needed, I can be your guide," the Foreign Minister cautiously suggested.

"Haha, I prefer to travel alone at my own pace, make some local friends, and hopefully avoid any diplomatic disputes."

Collins's words sounded very sincere, like a joke between friends.

"I see. Please rest assured, Tokyo has always been a very safe metropolis, and our people are very..."

rumble.

A distant rumble of thunder seemed to echo, and the ground seemed to tremble slightly, abruptly interrupting the Foreign Minister's words.

"It should just be spring thunder, please don't worry."

"Oh, it's nothing, it's nothing."

Collins gave a wink to his confidant, who nodded and began contacting secret agents deployed in Chiyoda Ward.

The Foreign Minister also took his leave and then dialed the phone with the Superintendent General of Police, who was in charge of on-site command.

"Director Takahashi, has something happened in the Hibiya area? We almost disturbed the visiting team just now."

"An out-of-control train has collided with another train ahead. An investigation is underway. Please speed away from the Hibiya line area. The other train has not yet stopped."

"What the hell?!"

The Foreign Minister has no authority to directly order the Superintendent General of Police, but upon hearing this, he still couldn't help but want to curse.

You're only telling me about something this big now?!

If you had told me earlier, I would have used the backup route directly!

"Things happened so suddenly. Please rest assured, things underground won't spill over into the surface." Director Takahashi added another explanation to avoid sounding too absurd, as he was indeed in charge of the matter.

Even if you upset the other party, you can still make them unhappy through the cabinet.

"That's better."

The Foreign Minister hung up the phone and opened a map to look at the route ahead.

There is indeed a section of road that intersects with the underground Hibiya Line, but to be on the safe side, we should slow down and observe the situation first.

He quickly made arrangements to slow down the guide vehicle.

On the other end, Director Takahashi was drenched in sweat, too exhausted to even wipe it away. He knew that his career was probably over.

Even the most powerful dogeza (a deep bowing gesture) might not be able to save him.

Unless it can be proven that this is an act of God, and given his accumulated network of connections, perhaps he can barely salvage the situation.

The victims are mainly passengers on the first train on the Hibiya Line and on an unidentified train.

The first train was hit by a collision, resulting in less than half of the passengers being able to disembark safely. The train was estimated to have over a thousand passengers, but only a few hundred disembarked, meaning that several hundred people were killed or injured.

This doesn't even include the derailed carriages abandoned by the unidentified train, which also resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries.

With thousands of casualties, was he really not looking at some major earthquake or war report?

If it is later proven that this was a plan carried out by terrorists, no matter how powerful he is, he will be permanently removed from this position, ending his political career, and even the prime minister will be affected.

"Director, that train hasn't stopped! It's already passed Higashi Ginza and Ginza Station! And it's still accelerating!"

"Damn it, what is the purpose of this thing?! Why can it continue to accelerate after such a collision?! That was an entire train, it turned it into a pile of soda cans!"

The confidant quickly opened the photos that had just been sent from the scene, zoomed in, and handed them to Director Takahashi.

"Sir, this is footage from a high-speed camera! That thing..."

"It's probably a monster!"

The photo shows the train passing through Ginza Station, captured by a high-speed camera that had been set up in advance.

Rather than a train, it was more like a terrifying monster parasitized by flesh and blood, with a huge face sewn onto the machinery, wearing a twisted and radiant smile.

Such a being should not exist in this world at all.

It looks more like a legendary monster.

But as Director Takahashi's face turned pale, he seemed to have found a glimmer of hope, a lifeline, and his eyes lit up slightly.

This is the force majeure he was looking for.

Perhaps I can keep my position?

"Immediately evacuate all evacuable people on the surface corresponding to the Hibiya Line. Contact the Self-Defense Forces; we need their rapid reaction force! Have SAT helicopters follow that monster's movements!"

After arranging these tasks, he quickly called the Prime Minister to explain the situation and request the Emperor to temporarily evacuate the Imperial Palace, showing that he was very considerate of the higher-ups.

Meanwhile, on the Zhuhai train, Nobi Tomoyo slowly awoke from his coma.

Chapter 108: Breaking Through Reality

"Cough cough."

Nobita's hand rested on his helmet; he was still feeling a little dizzy.

The violent impact just now almost threw him out, but fortunately he only hit the not-so-rigid flesh and blood wall inside the driver's cab, and fell into a brief coma, without losing much blood.

"In the end, we still ran into each other, and there was nothing I could do to stop it."

Filled with resentment, Nobita clenched his fists, maintained his balance, and stood up from the flesh-and-blood cockpit that was moving at a terrifying speed.

At this moment, he longed to unleash his full potential in a desperate situation, just like an anime character.

However, emotions can only provide a temporary boost of strength and a reasonably tenacious will, but they do nothing to change the actual situation.

"We've finally arrived! The rift in the seal is right here!"

"As expected, this world has long lost its spiritual energy, hehehe, but the darkness of humanity has become even more mellow and delicious. What a wonderful world."

"What good is temporary prosperity? Only those who survive to the end are the winners."

"From now on, I will be the master of humanity!"

Listening to the other party's unclear yet incredibly arrogant tone, Nobi tried to use the Hero's Sword to inflict some damage on the surrounding flesh and blood, but it was more like using a broom to clean up a century-old junkyard.

Insignificant and powerless.

It was only then that he realized that the red threads he had been feeling around his vision and couldn't get rid of were actually a health bar wrapped around him!

After making several cuts, the skin finally trembled slightly.

It's completely beyond his level to handle.

Although he had recently leveled up to Lv2 and his various attributes, such as strength, had improved, it was still far from enough.

The story is a typical plot where, while still in the beginner's village, the Demon King decides to personally eliminate the hero to prevent future troubles.

And the difference between these mobs and the boss is just too great!

Before he knew what to do, Zhu Hai had already arrived at Hibiya Station.

Suddenly, a white light flashed by, and the surrounding scenery changed instantly, as if they had been thrown into another time and space, which was the subway scene in the game.

These scenes are changing at an alarming pace; in just a second, it feels like ten years have passed.

Finally, accompanied by a cracking sound that echoed in my mind—crack—everything shattered.

Nobita felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and the opening to light was shrinking ever smaller in front of him.

pat.

Hibiya Station.

The scene that Nobita vaguely saw just now did not actually happen here.

From the monitor's perspective, the monster train crashed into a white, shimmering crack that appeared out of nowhere above the tracks, its shape resembling a spatial rift in an artwork.

Just as the monster train crashed, with a loud bang and a flash of light, Nobita was thrown out, rolled several times on the ground, and then slammed hard against the platform wall. His health bar dropped a bit, and his body curled up.

At the point where the train collided with the spatial gap, after the blinding white light dissipated, a neat cylindrical hole suddenly appeared above Hibiya Station, piercing directly through the ground and allowing sunlight to stream into the platform and tracks.

The commanders who were remotely monitoring the situation felt their scalps tingle.

Even though they were mentally prepared, they couldn't withstand such a horrific blow.

Is this something carbon-based life forms can do? Directly create antimatter annihilation?!

To make such a large area of ​​reinforced concrete neatly vanish into nothingness out of thin air—if this is the other party's usual tactic, Director Takahashi thinks it should be the emperor, the one with real power, so that even America wouldn't dare to bare its teeth.

Unfortunately, such a monster is clearly on the opposite side of humanity, and may have been lurking in human society for a long time, only now revealing its claws.

The purpose is also extremely obvious.

Instead, they will cling even tighter to Mr. Ami's coattails.

"Damn it, what kind of anime plot is this? Shouldn't our country have a secret supernatural organization?! Where are they?"

He had already asked the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister made it clear that the country had absolutely no such hidden departments as superpowered squads.

There is indeed a department that specializes in investigating mysterious events and does not disclose its findings to the public, but even qigong masters shake their heads when they see the research results.

Rather than being a result, it's more like pure conjecture, with a bunch of mystical information added in, which is said to be quite intimidating.

Takahashi himself knew about that department. It seemed like the last time was a week ago when Criminal Investigation Department Chief Iwaki tentatively inquired about the situation, only to be refuted by him with a scientific approach to investigation.

Oh, and there was also the head of the First Investigation Division who bypassed his direct superiors to submit a report on "supernatural cases" to him.

He flipped through a few pages of the report, found it ridiculous, and then told Iwaki. He heard that the man was even beaten up and hospitalized because of it.

Iwaki has ruined me!

So the supernatural really does exist!

This isn't just reporting to a higher level; it's clearly keen insight!

It seems that he has shirked some of the responsibility, and resignation is getting further and further away from him. It's all Iwaki's fault.

"Where are the assault troops?!"

"On our way to the scene! We expect to descent within two minutes!"

"Do not blockade the entrance from the air. Allow them to use all the firepower at their disposal to eliminate any potential threats. Let them know that the Emperor, the Prime Minister, and the people are watching!"

Director Takahashi loosened his tie, trying to breathe in more oxygen.

But the monitor feed turned incredibly bizarre the next second.

At the scene, on the damaged Hibiya Station platform, a large amount of blood was overflowing from an unknown passage, even forming waves that reached the same height as the platform within just a few dozen seconds.

Nobi, supporting himself against the wall and gripping the sword hilt, stood up and dragged himself through the blood that reached his ankles toward the edge of the platform.

Fortunately, his armor reduces environmental damage, and he still has some health left.

This gamification ability is so unscientific; even with only one drop of blood left, you can still move normally, and you can't even sever limbs.

Gululu.

The locomotive emerged from the sea of ​​blood.

At this moment, the steam locomotive it was originally attached to was completely covered. The white skin was wrapped around it in a round shape, forming a thick stick-like form. At one end of the stick was a smiling face with a slit mouth like that of a woman, making it visually difficult to accept such a existence.

It emerged from the blood pool with a laugh, standing upright with countless human hands reaching out from both sides, like centipedes, looking down at the tiny wild beast below.

The sunlight streaming through the large hole above its pale skin added to its eerie appearance.

【Zhu Hai】

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"I used to hate the sun, but now I don't think it's a big deal anymore."

"Little one, you look more and more delicious."

"But I prefer hot food! Come on, let's heat it up!"

Zhu Hai burst into laughter, and a large patch of skin on his chest split open, revealing a pile of bones.