noveltune Chapter 419 Reports and Conspiracy Theories
Chapter 419 Reports and Conspiracy Theories
Chapter 419 Reports and Conspiracy Theories
Tina ultimately did not take action; instead, she was invited to a celebratory late-night dinner.
The location was a luxury hotel next to Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
The hotel is owned by Sima Weizhi, and all expenses tonight should be paid by Miss Sima.
"Let's raise a toast to the great success of the Mass!"
Aqua raises a glass of wine.
"Cheers~"
The girls who started the competition raised their hands to hold up grape juice.
"Next, we must continue our missionary work!"
Aqua drank the wine in one gulp.
"Yes, we'll keep trying!"
The girls echoed Aqua's words and followed her example, drinking the grape juice from their cups.
"Lady Aqua, I think that in the future, we can focus our missionary work on less developed areas, or even the outer city."
Just then, Chizu Natsuyo raised her little hand and offered her suggestion. She recounted how her missionary work had not been successful in the bustling areas that day, but had been very successful in the outlying regions.
"That makes sense. Places suffering from hardship need divine protection more, and people suffering from hardship need to have faith in the gods more."
Aqua nodded in agreement with Chizu Natsuyo's words. The best potential believers of the Scorpion Cult were not ordinary people, but the cursed children of the outer city.
Girls like these cursed children, after being recruited into the Scorpio Cult, became devout believers, naturally aligning themselves with Scorpio.
"If that's the case, Sima Heavy Industry is willing to donate another sum of money to help the Scorpion Cult build a church in the outer city area."
Sima Weizhi quickly said that the outer city was desolate enough and the land price was cheap, so it wouldn't cost much, but it could strengthen the bond with the soon-to-be-taken Scorpion Cult.
"Alright, this is a celebration banquet, let's not talk about work for now. Let's eat and drink, a banquet should be about having fun!"
Aqua called out to the crowd, then took two fans, stood on a table, and began to use flower, bird, wind, and moon imagery to liven things up.
The girls from the Beginners applauded Aqua, and the little octopus girl, seeing this, wobbled and flew onto the table, imitating Aqua by using her hair and tentacles to perform a version of "Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon," which made the applause even more enthusiastic.
"Aqua-senpai, how could you give alcohol to Scorpio?"
Amidst the enthusiastic applause, however, came Eris's sermons.
"I didn't give her any alcohol. Hey, isn't that grape juice?"
Little Scorpio performed in a daze, and by the time the celebration ended, she had become an accessory to Aqua.
Her soft lower body was wrapped around the waist of the water goddess, her head rested on the top of Aqua's head, and her octopus-like hair twisted and turned somewhat helplessly.
According to Sumire Muroto, Scorpios inherited octopus genes, and each of an octopus's tentacles has an external brain.
In other words, although Little Scorpio was drunk, the fleshy strands of hair on her head remained clear-headed.
"Tina, do you have a place to stay in Tokyo? If not, you can come and stay at my place."
Broly invited the girl next to him, who seemed a little uninterested.
That's my home.
Rentaro Satomi offered a reminder.
"No need, I've already booked a room at another hotel."
Tina quickly waved her hand.
"Shall I take you home?"
Tina shook her head and refused, because she was going to a room prepared for her here by Professor Anne Rand, not a hotel, and that room probably contained all the weapons and equipment she needed to carry out the assassination mission.
"No."
"So when are you leaving here?"
"I'm not leaving Tokyo for the time being, and I haven't joined the Scorpion Cult yet."
"Then come back to my Broly tomorrow, and I'll personally arrange your baptism ceremony."
Aqua walked over and said.
"it is good."
Tina nodded in agreement and left the hotel alone.
A night breeze blew in my face, and it was a little chilly.
After walking a distance, the girl took out her phone and made a call.
"Tina, why are you calling?"
"Professor Ayn Rand, I've arrived in Tokyo."
"Did something happen?"
"Um."
Tina responded, carefully choosing her words before reporting, "Professor, I've discovered a religion in Tokyo."
"religion?"
The voice on the other end sounded somewhat puzzled.
"You don't need to report to me about things that are unrelated to the mission."
"Well, this religion held a mass, and the Holy God attended the event."
"Are you trying to say that you've successfully assassinated him?"
"No, what I mean is, I had the opportunity to assassinate, but I gave up the chance."
Why?
"Professor, do you believe in the existence of God?"
Tina didn't answer but asked a question instead.
"I don't believe in God, I only believe in science."
"What if I told you I witnessed a miracle at Mass?"
"What miracle?"
"A girl who looked like a half-human, half-octopus floated in mid-air, scattering fine, rain-like light from her hands. In an instant, she healed the injuries and illnesses of thousands of people attending the Mass. My eyesight is very good, and I can see ordinary people with scars. Their scars fall off, and their skin is restored to its original state..."
Tina recounted the events of the Mass, but she didn't mention Broly and Scorpio; she simply described what happened at the Mass from the objective perspective of a participant.
He also mentioned two promises made by the Scorpion Cult to its followers: one was to purify the gastrovirus for ordinary people, and the other was to achieve perfect evolution for the cursed children.
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In an underground military research institute in Washington, D.C., Professor Ayn Rand listened in stunned silence.
"Professor Rand, should I still take on this assassination mission?"
After a while, Tina's question came through the microphone.
"Are you sure the miracle is real?"
"Professor, I'm not sure."
Tina lied, she was certain of it.
"When I entered, I received some snacks and water from the religion for those attending Mass, and I had some suspicions that there might be something wrong with those things."
However, this doesn't explain why some people can heal their injuries at a visible speed under a strange light, as if they were cursed children.
"Did it succeed?"
"Professor, what did you say?"
"It's nothing. The assassination mission is temporarily suspended. Investigate the situation of that religion. Also, seal and preserve everything you ate and touched during the mass, and then mail it back to me."
Ayn Rand doubted that Sumire Muroto's research had been successful.
Of the four sages who once carried out the New Human Creation Project, Sumire Muroto was the first to abandon the human mechanical modification project.
He then devoted himself to the study of gastroentervirus itself, aiming to achieve the seemingly impossible goal of making gastroentervirus controllable.
However, when Ayn Rand suddenly heard from Tina, who had gone to the Tokyo safety zone, about the incredible things that happened during the Scorpion Cult's mass, she began to wonder if Tina's research had made a breakthrough.
There is suspicion that the so-called Mass ceremony was actually a press conference for an alternative biological technology, simply packaged under the guise of religion.
However, compared to the chromium mining rights promised by Qi Wuzong Xuan, the potential biotechnologies for purifying gastritis and achieving perfect gastrulation are far more important.
"Yes, I understand, Professor Ayn Rand."
Tina breathed a sigh of relief; at least she didn't have to assassinate her friend's acquaintance.
She secretly returned to Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where staff were still cleaning.
Tina quietly picked up some unfinished bottled water and opened but uneaten snacks from the trash cans outside, intending to send them to Professor Ann Rand, who was far away in the United States.
"Professor, please don't blame me, I don't want to hurt my friend."
Tina muttered to herself as she took out the small half-tube of gastrovirus stock solution she had secretly saved while working and poured it into the unfinished mineral water.
I imagine that Professor Ayn Rand will make a discovery by then, even if that discovery is man-made.
. . . .
The following day, the special package, which had been smuggled to the United States, was loaded onto a plane bound for Washington.
The aftereffects of the Mass ceremony are only just beginning to unfold within the Tokyo safety zone.
Last night, more than 3,000 people attended the Mass, and many of them brought their mobile phones and filmed the event. Aqua did not prohibit believers from recording miracles.
Meanwhile, videos of the mass, taken from various angles, had already been uploaded to the internet and given titles such as "The True God Has Descended" and "God Has Finally Come to Save the World."
However, many people still don't believe it, thinking that the scenes in the video are all created with special effects.
Of course, that's not wrong either, except it's not a video effect, but an on-site atmospheric effect.
Scorpio is considered by many to be an AI-generated character, since how could there possibly be an octopus girl in this world, and even if there were, how could she be floating in the sky?
As for the divine blessings and such, the lighting and special effects are all maxed out, making it seem like there's magic in the real world. It's so fake it couldn't be more fake.
As for those who claim that divine grace healed their long-standing injuries, cured people suffering from rheumatism and herniated discs, or restored sight to people with damaged eyesight, anyone who believes that is a fool. As for the strange occurrences at the scene, they are all shills.
What? The Holy Emperor has also made an appearance? You still don't believe it?
Nonsense, of course I don't believe it.
The Holy Emperor is pushing the New Gut Method, while the Scorpion Cult is promoting the doctrine of not discriminating against the children of the curse. It goes without saying who's behind them, right?
When Wang Po sells melons, she's obviously praising her own wares. Would she really say that the melons she's selling are bad?
A ton of conspiracy theories have emerged online.
In this post-disaster world, the credibility of governments around the world is very low.
In reality, not many people would jump out and say this, but on the internet, who the hell cares who you are?
The Scorpion Cult, which openly defies the societal trend of abhorring the cursed child, naturally has no good reputation.
(End of this chapter)