Chapter 676 Kamurocho in 1991

In the darkness, the kimono woman confronted Chen Ke, but Chen Ke did not feel the murderous intent. The other people around him suddenly fell silent. In a blink of an eye, the subway station was empty, leaving only Chen Ke and the woman.

Chen Ke pointed his gun at her and hesitated whether to pull the trigger. At this time, the woman suddenly turned around and walked towards the staircase on the right.

"Leaving...?"

Chen Ke was stunned. He didn't know what she was going to do, but his intuition told him that the woman wanted him to follow her.

He groped in the dark, testing his feet while following the woman's footsteps.

At this time, the light in the subway station slowly returned to normal, and the light yellow light shone down from the dark sky. After a few seconds, the ceiling and incandescent lamps appeared in front of him. The decoration style of the platform changed. The stand equipment hanging on the wall disappeared, and the green and orange route indicator lines decorated on the floor and wall turned into a faded light red.

A black figure slowly appeared beside him, and quickly transformed from a shadow to a real person. Chen Ke quickly put his weapon back. The next second, the piercing whistle of the subway came from deep in the tunnel, and there were people coming and going around him.

"This is..." Chen Ke muttered to himself. The people around him were dressed in a very modern style. He looked up at the station announcer. The place was right, Shinjuku Station...

Chen Ke squeezed through the crowd and came to the stairs at the subway exit. His eyes swept through the crowd, and his left eye caught the woman in a white kimono. She was standing on the stairs waiting for him.

He stepped up the steps one by one. The sunlight at the exit shone down, a little dazzling. Seeing Chen Ke following, the woman turned and left. Chen Ke let his eyes adapt for a while, then ran up quickly and stood at the entrance of the subway station.

This is the street of Shinjuku, but it looks older than before. The traffic lights are flashing, a large number of people are waiting on the roadside, and the medieval-style vehicles are rushing through the intersection. Everything is in order, but for some reason, the people on the road look very tired and depressed.

The woman in kimono was far away. She walked slowly through the busy street. The cars passed through her body like passing through a phantom. Chen Ke hurriedly followed her. Passers-by around him looked at him strangely.

Chen Ke walked and observed the unfamiliar street under the bright sun. He noticed that there were many bankrupt stores on the surrounding streets, and there were also many unfinished buildings around. After half of the construction, there was a building left on the vacant land, and even the site was not fenced.

He passed by a large shopping mall. The TV wall in the street window was playing the noon news. Chen Ke glanced and noticed the time on it. It was May 3, Heisei 3, 2 pm.

Heisei 3...

Chen Ke frowned. He happened to know something about the Japanese era name. After all, there is a joke on the Internet called "Showa men, Heisei waste."

To understand this joke, you must understand what the era name is.

The era name is a system of recording years initiated by the monarch in the feudal era. Emperors of all dynasties generally changed the era name when they encountered major events such as "auspicious signs from heaven" or internal strife and external worries.

An emperor may have one or more reign titles. Most emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties had one reign title each, so the reign titles were used as the titles of emperors in later generations, such as Emperor Yongle and Emperor Yongzheng.

If the previous emperor died in the middle of the year, the successor would still use the current reign title and change the reign title after the New Year.

This was originally a system used in ancient times by Chen Ke's original motherland, but it was learned by neighboring countries such as Japan and South Korea.

Showa and Heisei were the reign titles of the two Japanese emperors during their reigns. The Showa era began in 1926 and ended in 1989. During this period, Japan experienced World War II, brought suffering to its neighboring countries, and also paid a price for itself.

After the war, facing the ruins of their homeland, the Japanese began to work desperately. Under various historical opportunities, Japan's economic development has been like a rocket since 1985, and the land price in Tokyo was once enough to buy the entire United States.

This is the so-called Japanese bubble economy period. The Japanese of that era were full of vigor and vitality, and the relaxed economic environment made everyone full of mysterious confidence in the future. This is also the origin of the so-called "Showa man".

After 1989, the emperor changed his position and Japan changed the era name to Heisei. From this year, the bubble economy reached its peak and then suddenly fell back. Until February 1991, Japan's economic growth suddenly stopped and then began to decline.

Many people's lives were shattered. Real estate prices fell in a collapse. Office workers who bought houses with high-priced loans during the bubble period saw their real estate values ​​collapse overnight. They had to continue to repay their loans when their wages dropped sharply or even when they were unemployed. Many small companies and large conglomerates addicted to buying houses also went bankrupt due to the break of the capital chain and the collapse of stock prices.

The housing prices during the bubble period are completely incomparable to those after the 1990s. Even if the people who bought houses at that time sold all their properties, they could not repay the 10% loan of that year...

From the 1990s to after 2000, Japan's economy has been stagnant, the social class is deeply solidified, the market is not vibrant, and young people have lost their sharpness and dreams. They are addicted to the second dimension culture all day long, and they eat and wait for death with a dead salary.

Because no matter how hard you try, the future cannot be changed, so hard work becomes meaningless, so it is better to make yourself happier, and this is the origin of the so-called "Heisei waste".

It is the third year of Heisei, that is, it is 1991 now, and Chen Ke was dragged back to 18 years ago...

Looking at the surrounding situation, Sunrise in 1991 may be worse than Japan. After all, Japan was still at the end of the bubble economy in 1991, while in 1991 of Sunrise, even on the streets of Shinjuku, there were already large areas of unfinished buildings and closed shopping malls, which shows that the economic recession has come earlier than expected.

This woman brought herself to 18 years ago, and there must be a reason, and she seemed to have no intention of harming anyone, so Chen Ke followed this woman all the way on the street.

After walking back and forth for a long time, with unlimited physical support, Chen Ke actually stood at the entrance of Kamurocho Tenkaichi Street again.

It suddenly started to drizzle, and pedestrians on the street picked up newspapers and bags to cover their heads and hurriedly avoid the rain. Chen Ke followed the woman in white kimono all the way to the low abandoned building complex that was supposed to be the Millennium Tower.

The woman's figure disappeared into the dark alley. Chen Ke looked at the situation on the street and thought that no one should pay attention to him, so he bent down and went in.

The alleys of these buildings were dark, and the distance between the walls on both sides was very close. To walk to the deep end, you had to lean sideways. The antennas above your head were tangled together, turning the sky into a thin white line.

When you walked to the deep end, there was a palm-sized open space in the middle, where a female corpse with her stomach ripped open was lying...