Chapter 86 Just tell me whether this advertisement is effective or not?
Regardless of what Chuuya Nakahara went through in the meantime, and how he got rid of the inexplicable puzzle of "my brother's friend is my mother", Dazai Osamu managed to win over two transcendents to lay the foundation for the Port Mafia within just a few weeks of joining the Mafia, and Mori Ogai made a lot of money.
And a week later, Dazai Osamu's commercial debuted in a bizarre way.
——Terrorist attack.
Yes, his commercial was broadcast on the news channel.
On the morning news on the 4th, a masked man in a white robe named "Time" hijacked the television signal and claimed responsibility for 7 suicides in Yokohama, 1,578 suicides across Japan, and 65 cases of mental disorders.
He claims that over the past few years, his supernatural power, the "Seeds of Time", has been spread all over the world. As evidenced by the chaos in the clocks, all of Japan will be in chaos within a month.
To this end, he ridiculed the Yokohama government and the mafia, accusing them of cowardice, incompetence and inaction. The situations of various major forces were broadcast in the form of video or editing. Including the government, which turned a blind eye to the chaos in the clocks but had more than three members committing suicide; and the mafia, which is completely ignorant of the current situation and is still living a life of drunkenness and debauchery.
He exposed the dirty laundry of several mafias, with the emphasis on the port mafia. Nakahara Chuuya's performance was edited into a very funny 10-second classic clip, ending with the line "Poor kid". But everything has its limits. Although everyone's negative information is treated equally, it is precisely because the Port Mafia was wildly laughed at in this terrorist attack that it appears to have a unique style. It even attracted a group of new members, and its power continued to rise in a "black and red are also red" way.
It is an advertisement, and it is not biased at all. Dazai Osamu's honesty is unnecessary.
This incident shocked Yokohama. Because a few weeks ago, there was clock confusion in Yokohama.
The initial symptom of the time disaster was clocks. Not only clocks, but also water clocks, hourglasses, sundials, and all objects that could represent time in the public's mind collapsed to varying degrees. The reason for this is probably because such items directly define time.
Humans define time and judge it through clocks. Clocks are the closest window to time and the first line of defense against collapse.
Not only Yokohama was shaken by this, because the criminals hijacked the news station signal for three consecutive days, and the last time they even hijacked the national signal. The terrorist attacks by people with special abilities spread rapidly across the country. In response, Japan launched a special investigation team and assigned the Armed Detective Agency and the Special Ability Division to investigate as quickly as possible.
However, the disaster of time has long been placed on the table of huge problems that the country must solve. Although it is not yet clear why time has a tendency to spread outward in a point-like manner, they know the culprit very well. But precisely because it is so clear, it cannot be revealed to the public.
Because no matter what, this matter cannot be solved by revealing the truth in a few words or finding a scapegoat. The truth will completely destroy this country. Scapegoats can temporarily eliminate panic, but once time passes and the truth comes out, the country's credibility will plummet.
The Special Powers Division sent out a team to investigate the disaster, and finally, a week later, through sophisticated model calculations, they came to the horrifying conclusion that the time disaster was spreading. The Special Ability Agent Section contacted the person in charge, Fukudi Yingchi, on the spot, but Fukudi Yingchi was on a mission abroad at the time and there was no news.
Another group was responsible for tracking and monitoring the Armed Detective Agency and assigning representatives to negotiate with the Armed Detective Agency. In this regard, they acted as pure victims and still tried to hide the disaster itself. However, his plan was exposed by Edogawa Ranpo at the first sight. After being ridiculed by Edogawa Ranpo many times, and after many levels of meetings, they finally came to the conclusion of sharing intelligence and formally ordered the four people of the Armed Detective Agency to sign a confidentiality agreement.
However, as the two things were happening in parallel, a panic about time arose due to the outbreak of the incident, the number of people with mild infections increased exponentially, and a large number of residents reported that they could not see the correct time, and their clocks moved forward and backward in a strange pattern - in fact, this was the breathing frequency of "Time Dazai Osamu". At the same time, the infection level of more early infected people worsened. In just one week, there were 9 suicides in Yokohama alone, which is the total number of suicides in the past two months.
The statistical result is that the number of deaths and mental disorders in Japan has doubled.
People were in panic for a while.
The Port Mafia was naturally not immune, but for some reason, the Port Mafia's time chaos was the least among all regions, so it was not so bad.
Mori Ogai had long anticipated and tested Dazai Osamu's intelligence. Even though the child is still a teenager with an indelible childishness, the familiarity in his appearance always makes him feel like he is seeing himself as a child. He had long known from his assistants that Dazai Osamu was not a fool, but even so he was shocked by Dazai Osamu's courage and cruelty, and even felt the thrill of escaping from danger for the first time in a long time.
He can choose not to stop it, but he must not do nothing. On the first day of the signal hijacking, when the young mafia leader wearing a red scarf and the grim-looking Nakahara Chuuya found Dazai Osamu, Dazai Osamu was basking in the sun on the rooftop of the Port Mafia.
The young man, whose action was about to indirectly kill countless people, now had a peaceful expression, and even a subtle, sarcastic and cold smile.
He moved a folding lounge chair and placed it along the edge of the roof. If he turned around with too much force, he would fall down. But he just raised his head lazily and looked at them wearily, as if he had been waiting for them for a long time.
Obviously, he knew what he was doing and what they were asking. He has this wonderful self-confidence - even if he is on the edge of falling, as long as he does not fall for a day, he will be a winner sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai.
All the crazy and stupid behaviors of the past week disappeared in an instant, and the only thing that was impressive was the pair of blood-red eyes in the dim environment.
Mori Ogai felt an inexplicable sigh in his heart. Dazai Osamu was the most suitable child for the other world. From his bones to his blood, he was born not to be bound by any rules.
But at the same time, he also had a premonition that even if he could introduce Dazai Osamu into the other world, given Dazai Osamu's unruly and unscrupulous behavior, the two of them would definitely have a dispute. His trust in his own cruelty was as firm as his love for Alice, and he would not allow such a person to live in his empire.
On the other hand, Nakahara Chuuya, who was designed to meet Verlaine and Rimbaud in the past week, is now having complicated feelings towards Dazai Osamu. He didn't care how many people would be infected and worsened by Dazai Osamu's terrorist attack. In fact, Mori Ogai didn't tell him so many things. He had only been told that Dazai Osamu was a rich second-generation. The only thing that this port mafia cares about is when Dazai Osamu prepared it, how he prepared it, what his plan was, and why he didn't tell him.
"What a naive guy." Dazai Osamu suddenly thought after hearing Nakahara Chuuya's voice.
All those who have spent some time with Dazai Osamu are used to being annoyed by Dazai Osamu's failure to report the truth, but no matter how sarcastic and secretive Dazai Osamu is, Nakahara Chuuya can't help but keep asking out of curiosity. But the difference between the Nakahara Chuuya who he just met and the Nakahara Chuuya who he had known for a long time was that the Nakahara Chuuya at this time was still feeling aggrieved because he did not regard the other party as a companion. Later, Nakahara Chuuya was simply curious about his plan, and even openly felt ashamed of having him as a companion.
Dazai Osamu finds it disgusting that Nakahara Chuuya secretly likes the nickname "Double Black" and thinks of him as a companion, but he will not expose it.
After that, Dazai Osamu stopped listening to what Mori Ogai said. If he really came from this world and was going to stay in this world, he would definitely carefully consider Mori Ogai's intentions. But now he still holds hundreds of billions of yen, has the support of Sengenmaku, and can even return to his original world at any time. He can do whatever he wants and does not need to listen to what Mori Ogai says. But we still need to have basic respect for our collaborators. Before Mori Ogai really gets angry, Dazai Osamu sincerely offers advice:
"It's a chaotic time right now, you shouldn't be so idle, right?"
Mori Ogai's brain worked quickly. He put aside the act of causing panic itself and realized in the blink of an eye the benefits of this act to the Port Mafia.
Being able to be recommended, even by teachers - Natsume Soseki wrote him a special letter, he believed that Dazai Osamu must have prepared a grand performance for the future world, but it was not a bad thing.
Dazai Osamu even gave Mori Ogai nearly three extra weeks of free time, and after Mori Ogai gained wealth, he overtly and covertly guided him to exchange the cash for weapons. Three weeks was the deadline for the latest batch of arms and ammunition to arrive, and all the foreshadowing that had been made before was unexpectedly all taken back at this moment.
Dirty material, arms, time, chaos. The tedious data summary ultimately points to an end.
——Before the incident is settled, this is an opportunity to unify the Yokohama world.
When the government and the Armed Detective Agency were overwhelmed with this and the people of Yokohama were in panic, it was the perfect opportunity for the Port Mafia, which had just been replenished with fresh blood, to strike unexpectedly. This was the perfect opportunity left by Dazai Osamu's careful calculations.
Amid the hysterical laughter of Dazai Osamu who was sitting alone on the rooftop, documents in the leader's office were signed one by one like an assembly line, and the armed forces of the port mafia were efficiently equipped with the latest guns and went out in full force.
The brand new black barrel flashed with cold light, and bullets flowed through the fingers like running water.
In the first week since the terrorist attack was predicted, the government was busy holding meetings to discuss policies, re-investigating the Aomori disaster, and trying to find a solution in collaboration with the Armed Detective Agency. The Port Mafia launched a surprise attack on Yokohama's underworld. In the first week, they wiped out a number of organizations with absolute force. They took advantage of the chaos to stir up the greed of the organizations, and with an extremely sophisticated power analysis, they stirred up hatred and disputes among the mafia, putting the entire Yokohama's underworld on fire.
On the third day of the second week of the government's ridiculously slow process, the port mafia suddenly launched an attack on GSS and Takase-kai. The world in Yokohama was in chaos, and it was even impossible to tell who was killed by time and who was killed in a gunfight. Chuuya Nakahara of the Port Mafia raided the headquarters of the two organizations, activated "Filth", crushed two buildings, and shocked Yokohama in one fell swoop. At the same time, Rimbaud and Verlaine, who had just rested, received a mission and carried out an assassination and cleanup operation against high-ranking Mafia officials (including the predecessors of the port mafia).
Rimbaud was in mixed emotions. He had recovered his memory, and as an intelligence agent with a clear mind, he found that his emotions were being controlled. Dazai Osamu seemed to be forcing them to meet, and he didn't know when to lure Verlaine to Japan. After they met and forced each other to explain their grievances, he gave them just enough time to rest, and then issued the task at the right degree that they would not find difficult to accept.
In the mission, Dazai Osamu marked out the key figures of all organizations, which seemed illogical and even could not stand up to scrutiny. But Rimbaud keenly discovered that although the people on the assassination list seemed ordinary, they were actually backbone figures who were easily overlooked. Financial officer, government contact, general secretary. These people do not have a very high status and do not have any abilities that are worthy of special attention. But once they die, it is foreseeable that there will be a brief period of chaos and shutdown within the organization. Once a whole list of names is listed, the entire criminal organization in the other world will enter a desperate blank period that they will have to face.
These organizations in chaos are the prey left for the Port Mafia during its low-key period. By killing them one by one according to the list, the dominance of the Port Mafia will become a foregone conclusion.
Every step was just right, like a worrywart, with countless fine threads spreading out from her slender fingertips, pulling everyone in Yokohama like playing with a doll. He was so brazen and so desperate. He calculated their psychological endurance accurately, and didn't care what they would think afterwards, what would happen to Yokohama, or the so-called peace. He forced everyone to run exhaustedly along the path he had preset. This machine's outrageous and terrifying combat method is extremely efficient, and the steam locomotive is visibly moving forward towards its destination.
Terrifying, eerily clever, it's just sheer terror.
On the day when Nakahara Chuuya had to go into recuperation due to exhaustion and filth, which was Thursday of the second week, Edogawa Ranpo finally stopped slacking off and proposed a plan, which was quickly adopted.
On Friday, the news station clarified the incident, criticizing the exaggeration of the emptiness of "time" and explaining the role of this non-existent supernatural power. It forcibly changed the "clock chaos" to magnetic field chaos, strategically abolished the clock system throughout Japan, and only used dusk and dawn as the only standard for action.
Of course, this is for ordinary people. When facing a supernatural area like Yokohama, the supernatural ability converted into "time" cannot control suicide, but can only control clocks, etc. As long as you don't care, you can live in peace.
The news on the surface was not very credible, but the two pieces of news were spreading at the same time, and there were indeed many suicide cases in Japan, so the panic was slightly eased. Edogawa forcibly blurred the key points with the sole purpose of all Japanese people reducing their fear of time confusion and even making them ignore the changes in time.
Only by not being disturbed, or even not noticing, and closing your eyes can you slow down the progression of infectious diseases.
The more you care, the more likely you are to get caught.
Using this method, which is a radical approach to slowing down the outbreak of the time disaster in Japan, is equivalent to putting a layer of protection under everyone's head.
Two weeks later, governments at all levels suppressed reported suicides, and the number of suicides suddenly dropped. A small advertisement saying "I don't give a shit about the time confusion" suddenly appeared on a street pole. At the same time, messages making fun of or playing with such disasters appeared on online forums. Although people with severe infections are still dying, the model calculations show that the number is much lower than expected, proving that the number of people with mild infections turning into severe infections is dropping drastically.
If you want to stop people from being afraid, you must first make everyone accustomed to it. Humans are animals that can adapt to the environment and deceive themselves.
The government contacted Fudi Yingchi not long ago, but he said he was not aware of the matter. Although there are many things to ponder, since the heroes of the Far East have said so, no one says anything more.
Fukuchi Yingchi himself was somewhat ambiguous about this incident, but this was also expected. Expanding the scope of the disaster was his original plan, but now someone has intervened, perhaps it was the arrangement of that 'Dazai Osamu'.
In the dim room, the white-haired man lowered his head. On the table was the bandaged boy Dazai Osamu, the surviving son of the legendary leader family in the Port Mafia and a debtor with hundreds of billions of yen.
As for the "time" when the terrorist attack was launched, he was put on the wanted list. But those who knew the situation knew that he didn't have that ability, so the focus was on hijacking the signal. However, the person with special abilities who hijacked the signal was a otaku and could not be found, so they returned empty-handed.
At the moment when Japan was shaken and thrown into turmoil but quickly calmed down, in faraway Aomori, a naked young man with his eyes closed fluttered his eyelashes but did not wake up. A few kilometers away, on the rooftop of a simulated port mafia building, a young man in a black coat appeared out of nowhere.
The rapid expansion of the disaster reduced the concentration of the singularity's power, giving him more time to wake up. He opened his eyes and looked far away in the direction of Yokohama. Although he saw nothing, he seemed to have clearly seen someone, so he suddenly smiled meaningfully.
"Dazai Osamu." He whispered softly.
Fyodor, who noticed that "Time Dazai Osamu" had woken up, also woke up. He frowned slightly and looked out the window thoughtfully.
A thousand meters away, in the office of Yokohama Port Mafia leader Nakahara Chuuya, a young man who was taking a nap with his legs resting on the desk suddenly noticed something, turned around abruptly, and stared in a certain direction. Alarmed by his behavior, several teenagers appeared in the room and searched around, but disappeared quickly after finding nothing.
The unusual movement in the room did not cause Dazai Osamu to react. His gaze remained fixed for a long time, revealing a thoughtful look. He blinked slowly and turned his head away with boredom. A childish dullness appeared on his delicate boyish face.
"The stage mission is completed, it's time to go back and rest."
Although no one was in sight, voices were heard from all around:
"yes."
**
The port mafia occupied Yokohama too quickly, but you can't eat too much in one bite, and Mori Ogai was very, very busy.
Fortunately, Dazai Osamu's "commercial film" recruited a group of new people. After promoting the members who needed to be promoted, he was able to barely staff the new territory with the corresponding personnel. He needs at least a few months of stabilization period before he can turn what he just ate into real nutrition.
But even so, after all this trouble, no one in Yokohama dared to really confront the port mafia.
But even though it was such a great occasion, Mori Ogai couldn't let his guard down. He really cared too much about Dazai Osamu, almost to the point of being obsessed with him.
It was he who issued the plan to capture the Yokohama World Organization, and the results achieved thus far have further consolidated his position. The looks of the employees on the first floor who were passing by the lobby on the first floor changed from weirdness to awe when facing the golden statue. Everything was getting better, but that didn't mean he could forget what happened.
——Dazai Osamu changed all his plans beyond recognition without changing the framework of his plans.
Mori Ogai had a feeling like he had met another himself. Dazai Osamu knew him too well and was aware of every move he made. If this kind of understanding were a companion, it might make him feel comfortable both physically and mentally. But that was Dazai Osamu, and he felt like he had something stuck in his throat.
The huge amount of information that Dazai Osamu revealed in this process was to a terrifying degree. Even Mori Ogai felt that he was a chess piece on Dazai Osamu's chessboard. He was the king, but Dazai Osamu was not on the chessboard. He was overlooking everything.
As a chess player with a strong desire for control, this sense of déjà vu really made his scalp tingle, and a sense of crisis of raising a tiger to harm himself sounded a sharp alarm in his heart. The overwhelming red warnings made him unable to ignore them.
Putting down a stack of documents that were in short supply, Moriou let out a long breath, touched his hairline which he didn't know if it had receded, and pressed the button for the external call with his wine-red eyes flashing.
"Come and get the documents. Also, call Officer Dazai."
The door opened and secretaries in suits filed in. New documents were piled on the table, as well as meeting requests from the finance department and the interrogation department.
However, after waiting for a long time, Dazai Osamu did not come, but Nakahara Chuuya, who looked embarrassed, came instead. Mori Ogai adjusted his expression and asked:
"Where's Dazai?"
"Um……"
Although the relationship between Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya deteriorated as the two spent more time together, Mori Ogai did see Nakahara Chuuya's progress. He also wanted to sigh the phrase "diamonds need to be polished with diamonds" that has accompanied him for half his life, but for some reason it felt wrong for him to say this in front of Dazai Osamu. Looking at Nakahara Chuuya hesitating, he wondered what Dazai Osamu had done again, while also calculating how to appease Nakahara Chuuya later. His psychological activities did not interfere with his expression. He raised his eyebrows and showed a puzzled look.
"He left a letter."
Nakahara Chuuya presented an envelope.
Mori Ogai had a bad feeling and didn't want to open the letter.
There was only a piece of letter paper in the envelope, and even on the back was the task information given to him, which was very careless. There was a line of unexpected words written on the letter paper, which shocked him so much that his mind went blank.
[Leave request: I am tired and want to go home to visit my family for more than a month, and the return date is uncertain. 】
Mori Ogai was in mixed feelings. He felt that his previous worries were groundless and he was overthinking them. They were totally unnecessary.
It feels terrible to have to compete with the air.
…
And seriously, does that guy really have any relatives to visit?
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