Chapter 737 Substitute
Because it is an island country and is often in earthquakes, the Japanese people have long been used to earthquakes. However, even the elderly rarely experience such violent shaking. They are all pale at this moment. The young people who were walking on the street are even more afraid to gather in the open space and dare not approach the buildings.
The whole of Tokyo, no, the whole of Japan is shaking.
There were countless calls, and the shogunate office was in tension and busyness.
Although these officials themselves were also frightened, in this case, they should still appease the various institutions first and not let the chaos go even more.
The Earthquake Bureau is the focus of everyone's attention.
But this is just the truth that ordinary people or lower-level officials think. The middle and upper-level officials of the shogunate had already found some inside information. After the earth was shaken, they did not think about the earthquake, but realized that it was probably the people there who were launching it again.
There are many people in various branches of Shinto Hall, and at this moment, they are also busy.
A courtyard located in Tokyo, outside, it is just a house where rich people live in a relatively ordinary and elegant house, and when you walk in, you will find that the people living here are not ordinary people, or even family, and there is a long corridor connecting them.
Those who live here are all retired Onmyoji in Shinto Hall. Of course, retirement is just a joke.
Although they are old, they are still affiliated with Shinto Hall, but they do not perform tasks normally, and they cannot even be seen by outsiders easily. Only familiar people will become their guests.
Cherry blossoms are not restricted by the season, and they bloom in a house located in the center. A gust of wind blows by, petals fall down, and the grass on the ground is covered with a thick layer.
Under the cherry blossom tree, more than a dozen men, who were over fifty years old, sat together and did not speak at this time.
What is filled with the air is a depressing atmosphere that is completely opposite to the beautiful scenery.
After a moment, one of the old men suddenly spoke: "How?"
"It's a substitute." said another man with black hair but unexpectedly white eyebrows.
"There is such a reaction in the substitution? It seems that there must be many people who replace it. This is the rejection of this world." Someone said.
The old man opened his mouth at first closed his eyes again, and a golden light flashed through his pupils. When he opened his eyes again, he said: "Look!"
Around the sky, the stars and the sun and the moon show a heavy shadow.
No, it is not a ghost, it is the power of the stars and the sun and the moon in the other world.
"Not good!" He calculated his fingers and frowned: "This is not a substitute for people, but a substitute for historical memories. Come on, tell the shogunate immediately!"
At the same time, in a commercial building in Tokyo
Because he was too late to go downstairs, he was hiding in the bathroom and suddenly became dizzy. A colleague who was hiding with him hurriedly supported him when he saw this and asked, "Sakamoto, are you okay?"
Ichiro Sakamoto's forehead was sweating, and after a while, he opened his eyes, looked at him, and asked without answering a question: "Who is the prime minister now? It's an earthquake, so he should be led by him?"
"Sakamoto, what are you talking about?" The colleague looked blankly: "Although there is a prime minister, our Japan is led by the Emperor and the Shogunate General Shinkawa. If something happens, it is naturally led by Shinkawa?"
"General Shinkawa? No, it shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this!" Sakamoto Ichiro was stunned at first, then covered his head with a pale face.
"Hey, Sakamoto, where are you going?!"
Just as my colleague exclaimed, he ran straight out.
My colleague shouted twice and found that the shaking building had stopped. He walked out a few steps and hurriedly ran out.
I didn't dare to take the elevator and ran down the stairs. I ran towards me. I ran into a middle-aged man running upwards. It looked familiar. Before he could speak, the middle-aged man greeted him first.
"Oh, by the way, Kawakami, who is the prime minister now?"
As the two passed by each other, the middle-aged man suddenly asked.
Ichiro Sakamoto had asked this question just now, and Kawakami felt it was inexplicable. What happened today? A terrible earthquake first came, and the two people suddenly asked such an inexplicable question, just like a code.
Kawakami frowned: "Isn't General Shinkawa?"
"Oh, that's why I remembered it wrong." The other party smiled without giving a fierce reaction like Ichiro Sakamoto.
This smile was a little strange, which made Kawakami feel a little scared. He quickly said goodbye and continued to move down.
What he didn't see was that the middle-aged man standing there watching him go downstairs had a complicated expression on his face.
"Is it me or this world that has the problem?"
At the same time, a government office in Osaka
After the earth was shaken, I found that the house was not damaged. I thought that several ordinary government employees were walking back as they used to.
As soon as I reached the gate, I suddenly heard screams and angrily cursing from behind.
He turned around and looked at it in surprise, but he saw a group of fully armed soldiers surrounding the group.
"What are you doing?" Someone asked with courage.
The officer in charge said coldly: "I am ordered to come and investigate! Everyone is not allowed to move and wait in place!"
Countless guns were pointed at them, making these government officials look at each other and shut up.
Now they can't figure out what's going on. Youdao is a master of the times. Faced with such a group of people with live ammunition, they naturally choose to remain silent.
After a while, government personnel from nearby were gathered together.
At this time, the officer spoke again: "Now, I ask you, now the Prime Minister's government ruled Japan, stand to the left! Now the shogunate ruled Japan, stand to the right! Give you ten seconds, immediately!"
What the hell?
Government employees looked at each other and thought this kind of question was ridiculous. How could they ask such a thing so seriously?
But when the ten seconds ended, almost everyone was shocked when they looked at the group of people located opposite.
"What's going on here? Hello! Chunxiang, why did you run over there?!" A man looked at his fiancée in surprise.
She chose the side of the shogunate rule, but the shogunate had already collapsed. This is the history they had learned! Why did her fiancée make such a low-level mistake?
Not only him, Haruka looked at him in surprise: "Why did you run over there?"
Obviously, his psychological journey is basically the same as his.
There are almost all people in both aspects, with similar numbers and acquaintances. Now it's really a big fuss.
The more common sense things are, once you find that they are completely opposite to your own cognition, the shock and panic are simply irresistible.
Although they are at the bottom of the government and do not know the truth about another world, they have been exposed to many information that ordinary people cannot access during this period. At this moment, various speculations have come to their hearts, and the eyes of looking at former acquaintances and even lovers have been scrutinized and suspicious.
Could it be that when they didn't know, he/she was actually dropped?
Just as similar incidents occurred everywhere in various cities throughout Japan, the central hub of the shogunate was the residence of General Shinkawa. General Shinkawa stood in the courtyard. Because of the shaking, a big tree fell to the ground, and the branches covered half of the courtyard.
But due to his orders, no one will deal with the tree for the time being.
"This is a bad omen." The fall of this tree seemed to indicate something, making General Shinkawa's face sink like water.
He stood in front of the tree, lowered his eyes and looked at it, thinking about something in his heart. The attendant didn't know, but he also understood that the lord must be in a very bad mood now.
"General, Shinto Hall has sent the message here!" At this moment, a servant hurried in and said with his head down.
"explain!"
"Hi, according to Shinto Hall, this is the opposite world who has launched a substitution with all its efforts, and the two worlds have collided violently because of the substitution!"
"It is said that it is not a substitution of people, but a substitution of historical memory. If it is replaced, a person will still be the same person, but the memory will change, causing the entire person to become different, identify with another world, not this world."
This situation is very serious.
After all, even if people are not replaced, as humans, memory is still very important. When a person's memory is completely replaced, even if the soul is still the same soul, cognition and sense of belonging will change.
In terms of consequences, this substitution is no different from being replaced directly.
"What else? Is there a solution to Shinto Hall?" General Shinkawa asked in a deep voice.
The attendant had just given a negative answer, and another attendant rushed over.
"Report! The latest news came from the Shinto Hall. They said that if we withstand this wave of substitution and do not let the order of this world be tampered with, part of the opposite world will be digested by our world!"
"If you are weak and I am strong, then the opposite world will continue to pull into our world until it is digested."
This is indeed good news. General Shinkawa does not think that Shintoku Hall will deceive himself in such matters. After all, this is no longer a matter of power, but a matter of survival and death in his own world.
"How many people have replaced it?" General Shinkawa continued to ask.
"General, it is not possible to count at the moment." The official asked had just answered the phone and came over and only mentioned a few more serious substitution incidents reported.
"It depends on who has a higher historical recognition. If our world has a higher recognition, then even if some people are replaced, when our world swallows and digests the other world, the memory of these replaced people should be restored on their own initiative."
General Shinkawa did not speak anymore, but looked up and looked into the distance.
There was a cloud floating there. Through the clouds, he seemed to see another history.
Similar to this world, it was a similar person event in the Warring States Period and before, but there was no Shinkawa family. Therefore, that world was Oda, Toyotomi, Tokugawa, and finally became Meiji, Taisho and Showa.
Is this a legendary incident in his lifetime that he encountered such a bizarre thing?
Chapter completed!