This is a very difficult day for the people in this world.

After the world was devastated by nuclear bombs, nuclear winter naturally came without hesitation. As a result, the people of Tahe City were forced to face the harsh winter and blizzard before they could get over the grief of losing their loved ones.

Frankly speaking, facing this situation, Makoto Naegi and his friends were somewhat confused. Although they were "super high school level", they were still just a group of high school students. They might be able to talk back to Junko Enoshima, but facing the harsh nature, even they could only cry out to the heavens and the earth for help.

Moreover, in this harsh environment, the original human order has collapsed, and there have even been many people who took advantage of the chaos to commit crimes. Some people have also tried to organize small groups in order to rule the city.

In response, Fang Zheng said...Have you forgotten my existence?

If Fang Zheng wasn't here, this tower and the city would probably become like New Vegas, with many warlords fighting for power. But with Fang Zheng here, do you still want to play this game? Impossible, just dream on.

Have I been the emperor for hundreds of years in vain?

So Fang Zheng acted decisively and suppressed the protest with iron blood. It was ridiculous that those people were probably brainwashed by freedom and democracy and actually organized a crowd to protest... Then Fang Zheng caught the leaders and hanged them on the street lamp, and these people immediately shut up.

After that, Fang Zheng occupied the city center of Tahe City and re-divided it to give others enough living space. Of course, most citizens of Tahe City were still willing to listen to Fang Zheng's leadership and command. After all, they were not the unruly people in Frostpunk. They naturally knew that if they were scattered in this situation, they would only destroy themselves.

As for whether anyone would want to resist?

Just look at those Zerglings, Aliens and Dragons first.

Most of the people following Fang Zheng were the ones he had saved in Tahe City, and a considerable number of them were the parents of the brainwashed children. Tahe's original plan was to kill all the adults with children first, and then leave those without children, because people who have never given birth will definitely have less sympathy for children, and then the two sides will be more desperate and ruthless in killing each other.

However, because Fang Zheng acted in time, many of those parents survived. Of course, their mental states were not good. Some even developed post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing their children, and were afraid to touch or get close to them.

Fortunately, Fang Zheng still has a trump card.

Now we have to call on Academy City’s fifth Lv5 psychic, “Psychological Mastery” Shokuhou Misaki to take action!

"…Why do I feel like I have become the leader of a cult…"

Looking at the howling snowstorm outside, Shokuhou Misaki held the coffee cup in her hand, looking tired.

"Thank you for the hard work, but you did a good job, didn't you?"

“But I’m just depressed…”

Shokuhou Misaki lay on the table, watching Fang Zheng pour a new cup of coffee into her cup, and couldn't help but complain.

When Shokuhou Misaki first arrived here, she was full of confidence. In her opinion, as the most powerful psychic in Academy City, it would be easy for her to remove the brainwashing.

As a result, after Shokuhou Misaki confidently peeked into the memories of both the brainwashed children and the persecuted parents, she almost collapsed.

The malice was so twisted that Shokuhou Misaki couldn't even spit it out. She just felt as if her whole body was stained...

Not to mention that these children and their parents add up to more than 100,000 people. If Shokuhou Misaki really did psychological counseling for each of them one by one according to her original idea, she would probably collapse before she finished.

So Shokuhou Misaki had no choice but to ask Fang Zheng for help, and Fang Zheng gave her a suggestion - since she can't handle it, why not use religion to brainwash her?

Strictly speaking, Shokuhou Misaki didn't like this plan. As a psychic, she certainly knew how powerful religious brainwashing was. In fact, Fang Zheng himself didn't like it either. If this was a normal world, he would definitely not do this. But the problem was that this world was already abnormal enough. These people were first persecuted by Enoshima Junko, and they killed their parents with their own hands or watched their relatives being killed by those children.

Originally, this kind of mental trauma would take at least a generation to heal even with psychological counseling and treatment. Then came the nuclear explosion and the end of the world, nuclear winter. Given these people's current mental state, wanting to remain normal under such circumstances is not normal.

In fact, some adults had formed groups to hunt those children after the nuclear winter came. In their opinion, these children had blood on their hands before, and killing them now could save food. Moreover, they had hurt so many people and deserved to die. Killing them would not cause any condemnation in their conscience...

So in this situation, Fang Zheng gave Shokuhou Misaki two suggestions.

Either we give them a large-scale brainwashing, completely erase their memories, and then implant false memories. As long as you don't say anything and I don't say anything, then everyone will pretend nothing happened. With Shokuhou Misaki's ability and the help of Fang Zheng's divine power, we can indeed completely erase the previous memories in these people's minds. As long as we cut and edit it, these people will forget the desperate massacre that took place in Towa City, and they will just have to face the end of the world nuclear winter.

Or they could use religious spirit to brainwash them again, helping them to overcome this pain and live again. Of course, the latter is much more troublesome than the former. For the former, with Fang Zheng's power and Shokuhou Misaki's "psychological control", it can basically be done in one morning, and then everyone can go on living with false memories.

The latter is a slow and steady process that takes a long time to complete. Even if Shokuhou Misaki has super powers to help her, she is not omnipotent...

Fang Zheng didn't care about either option, but Shokuhou Misaki felt that as a psychic, it was too shameful for her to use such a simple and crude method as erasing memories, so she chose the second option even though she knew there was a tiger in the mountain.

The result is... now she is lying on the table like a salted fish, unable to sit up.

"Okay, come on, take a break and finish this cup of coffee. We still have to entertain guests in the afternoon."

"What a hell of a customer!!"

Shokuhou Misaki slammed the table angrily.

"It's all your fault. You said I had to pray once in the morning and once in the evening. Don't you know how uncomfortable it was for me to stand there? I was so tired!"

"Isn't this good? You can lose weight at the same time."

Fang Zheng chuckled, picked up the coffee pot and put it aside, then sat back in his chair.

"But the effect is very good. Now everyone is much more energetic and spirited."

Seeing the helpless and furious Shokuhou Misaki, Sayaka Maizono also hurried out to comfort her. As a "super high school idol", Sayaka Maizono is also proficient in singing and dancing, but in the current atmosphere, of course, she can't go out to hold a solo concert, so under Fang Zheng's arrangement, Sayaka Maizono is responsible for leading the choir to sing hymns...

Of course, the music was also chosen by Fang Zheng. Its main purpose is to make people feel peaceful and relaxed, so as not to be too nervous.

However, this wave of "Hymn Band" is also good. The accompaniment is the "super high school level pianist" Akamatsu Kaede, and the lead singer is the "super high school level idol" Maizono Sayaka. The effect is naturally great.

By the way, Mioda Yuibuki from the "Super High School Level Light Music Club" also wanted to join, but was decisively stopped by Fang Zheng. "Big sister, don't show off your skills of playing the electric guitar with your teeth in this kind of occasion. Let's go to the tavern to liven up the atmosphere..."

Of course, maybe because she sang too many hymns, Sayaka Maizono now exudes a sense of indifference to the world...

It would be troublesome if I were brainwashed...

"Boom boom boom."

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door, and then the door of the study opened. Kirikiri Kyoko walked in. Looking at Fang Zheng sitting behind the desk, she handed him a piece of paper with a serious expression.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, this is the investigation report."

"Yes, thank you."

Fang Zheng took the investigation report and read it carefully. It has been almost half a year since the "nuclear explosion". Under the arrangement of Fang Zheng and Shokuhou Misaki, the entire Tahe City has almost returned to its original order. Of course, Tahe City is no longer called Tahe City. Fang Zheng gave it a new name - Diamond City.

Anyway, it’s radiation, isn’t it quite appropriate?

It’s good enough that it’s not called Megaton Town.

If we can get an aircraft carrier someday, we can call it Rivet City.

During this period of time, Fang Zheng gathered his internal personnel while sending people to investigate the surrounding area and search for survivors. Of course, there were a lot of gains, but some of the survivors' descriptions made people feel very strange.

I don't know if Enoshima Junko did anything, but according to the survivors, after the nuclear explosion, some weird things appeared in many places. Some said that he once found a monster called a ghoul in an isolated village, and some said that a group of vampires suddenly appeared from underground, wreaked havoc after the nuclear explosion, and captured the survivors as food.

Some people even said that in some other places, a horrific epidemic called "Apocalypse Virus" had appeared. The infected people's bodies would be covered with large areas of purple crystals, which was extremely miserable.

Fang Zheng also asked some people about this, and they all said that they had never heard of anything like this before. They didn't know why, but after the nuclear explosion, it was as if some seal was lifted, and all kinds of monsters and demons came out.

Of course, you could say that infectious diseases could be caused by cell mutations caused by nuclear explosions, but what about vampires and ghouls? Are there also synths and mutants?

So Fang Zheng also sent people to investigate these rumors, and now the investigation has also produced results.

According to the report of Byakuya Jugami, these rumors are almost true. Except for the so-called "isolated village" that they did not find and could not confirm whether the ghouls really exist, Byakuya Jugami and Makoto Naegi did find corpses wrapped in purple crystals in the northeast, and even detected the scene of a vampire army capturing humans.

"So the current situation is... like this?"

Looking at the report in front of him, Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes. He now suspected that Enoshima Junko might have other purposes for carrying out global nuclear explosions. Perhaps the collapse of the human order in this world was one of them. Perhaps, as they said, this was some kind of seal, and the nuclear bombing destroyed the continuity of the human world and eliminated the seal, so all kinds of monsters and demons came out to show their presence.

"Let Jushin and the others come back. It's our turn to go out next."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng handed the report back to Kirikiri Kyouko.

"Notify Nanami and ask her to prepare herself."

"Okay, Mr. Fang Zheng, our goal is...?"

"According to the report, quarantine areas have already appeared in the area where the virus has spread, and the virus itself needs time to study... Let's deal with those vampires first, and then see what's going on."

Looking at the map in front of him, Fang Zheng also made a decision.