Superman, the Man of Steel, female, 6 years old!

Everyone saw that the Caichuan sisters and Natasha in the mental network all made helpless expressions, as if they were saying 'there's nothing we can do' and 'we still can't stop this guy'... and touched their foreheads.

"So why do you think the Japanese... have the tradition of leaving things like ashes and rings on the beach after death... Thor?"

Anna chuckled and asked a question.

And to make it more convincing, the projection of the beach scan in the mind network zoomed in, highlighting dozens of anomalies from different locations two or three meters underground. The contents inside were all similar...

Basically, there's a handful of 'dragon's ashes' buried inside along with rings, small tags and other things.

The upper level of the entire public beach is a place for tourists to play and relax.

But in the eyes of people with high attributes like Anna, the lower level has become a place like a church and a cemetery.

"Well... maybe it's because... of the commemoration thing Kobayashi mentioned..."

Thor said uncertainly, "Perhaps this was their favorite or most important place in their past lives... like the place where they confirmed their relationship... or the place where they proposed..."

Chapter 274: Actually, it’s just because the price of the cemetery is too high

The touching moments and nostalgia in life...

After death, I want to be buried in the place I loved most in life...

This kind of thing...Thor has seen quite a few of them in TV dramas, and in Japan, there may be many people as sentimental as those in TV dramas.

So these ashes and memorials under the beach can be explained.

"Memorial and nostalgia, perhaps there are some..."

When Thor, Krillin, and the others were completely moved by the idea of ​​"a place they loved in their lifetime" and "the last lingering attachment in their lives"...

Anna showed a devilish smile in the helpless expressions of the Caichuan sisters and Natasha.

That unforgettable whisper, as if it came from hell, directly shattered the fantasy of Thor, Xiaolin and the others: "Have you never thought..."

"This is actually just because the price of cemeteries in Japanese cities is too high..."

"So he was buried in a place like this by his family?"

This kind of thing is not impossible.

Funerals are a very expensive business in Japan. A traditional 1 square meter cemetery and tombstone will set you back a minimum of 400 million yen, while a more upscale or better location could cost 700 or 800 million yen.

Although families in Japan share one cemetery, all family members are buried together neatly after death.

At the bottom of each family tomb are the ashes of the entire family's ancestors. If there is a new bone-in-residence ceremony, the stone slab in front of the tomb is lifted, and the ashes are placed in the stone box underground, and the headstone is then restored.

But in every family there are always one or two unworthy people, living or dead...

Or maybe the stone boxes in the cemetery were full, and there was no money to buy new ones due to the economic crisis.

Or maybe he offended the abbot.

I made mistakes in my life...

In short, they are the dead who have no money or are not qualified to enter the family cemeteries where monks preside over the salvation.

Then these people will naturally find a place where they can remember and reminisce... to 'spend the Yin year in peace'.

In particular, some Japanese people have a habit of wanting to stay in a place they loved during their lifetime after death.

Therefore, although in Japan the management and punishment of the illegal scattering of human ashes are very strict.

The only officially permitted place to scatter ashes in mainland Japan is Kazura Island in Shimane Prefecture. Seaside, parks, tourist spots, the sky, or mountaintops are not permitted.

If you want to spread it, you either have to rent a boat to the open sea or get the consent of the owners of the mountains, forests and private land.

Scattering loved ones in places they loved during their lifetime, such as places like Disney, is an immoral act that will cause social unrest.

Of course, the public beach where Anna and the others are now is also prohibited from burying the ashes of the deceased.

But for people anywhere, rules are always rules.

As long as they are not discovered...

Then it’s not considered stealing.

In addition, the Japanese like to customize their own funerals during their lifetime, including coffins, linings, shrouds, cemeteries, portraits, etc. ... which is what they call "end-of-life activities."

Some people made a will before their death, wanting to be secretly buried in this beach park after their death...

That's not impossible.

Anyway, as long as there is no urn, no one will know what is two or three meters underground.

So naturally, Anna inevitably discovered dozens of burial sites here.

Xiao Lin had a gloomy face just now, naturally because she knew that these things had been reported in the newspapers and it would be shameful to say them out loud.

Although the Japanese are not particularly taboo about death, and houses near cemeteries are actually more expensive, it is still very embarrassing to embarrass the Japanese in front of Thor and the others.

"This... people in this world actually have to buy burial plots after they die..."

After understanding the whole story, Thor looked at Xiaolin with a look of shock on his face, "I thought this was already heaven..."

I have to say that some things still made Thor, who had lived happily here for several months, lose his world view.

“Well…actually not everyone needs to buy it.”

Anna acted a little nonchalant about Thor's shock and Kobayashi's embarrassment. Japan is a pretty good place. Although it is expensive, it will always be yours once you buy it.

You know, in some places, the cemetery still needs to be renewed.

But what if I have to renew the subscription?

With the money for the cemetery, I would have my children find a beautiful mountain or ridge, and then scatter or bury the ashes there...

Isn’t it fragrant?

Even if there is no place to bury me in the village after I die...

Can't the proletariat still go to paradise after death without spending a penny?

Apart from capitalists, the only people who really spend a lot of money on cemeteries are superstitious people in this world, or the petty bourgeoisie in the city.

Otherwise, if relatives really want to pay their respects, they can go anywhere to pay their respects. Why do they have to go to your public cemetery?

When I was reading martial arts novels, those sect elders, as well as Dugu Qiubai and the like, they were not buried in the cemetery there, right?

Otherwise, you really believe...

If you build a pyramid for yourself after death, can you really be resurrected in this world?

If you really built a modern pyramid, in addition to frequent tomb robbers, maybe sometime in the future it would be ground into powder and eaten as a panacea, just like the Egyptian pharaohs.

So even though dozens of remains of ashes were found under the beach park...

The Japanese government has also repeatedly enacted laws to prohibit such things.

However, Anna did not really have much blame or anger towards this behavior of commemorating the dead.

As long as they don't spill it on Disney's roller coasters or in the air while riding the Ferris wheel, and bury it deep enough so it doesn't affect others, you really can't accuse them of having no sense of public morality, right?

"You can understand it this way...Thor."

Seeing the innocent and adorable Thor's bewildered expression after learning everything, Anna comforted her, "This world is inherently imperfect... Even after being transformed by the New Gods, it's still imperfect..."

"And everything you and I will do in the future is actually to gradually make it perfect..."

Anna's words now sounded a little distant...

As the bond with the origin of this world becomes deeper and deeper.

She has also developed more and more empathy for the people and things in this world, and is more prone to mood swings.

Chapter 275 Nothing is meaningless

Japan is a country of contradictions.

They protect Thor and Kanna, who are considered minors in the eyes of the public, in every possible way, but they oppress young people like Kobayashi who have already entered society.

They exploit you desperately at work, and when there are too many tasks, they don't even treat you as a human being.

But sometimes the company can be very humane, like they won't fire you if you make a mistake, or they'll take care of your retirement, etc.

Although it is also about extracting surplus value, it is much more humane than the capitalists in some places who only want to make profits but do not want to take social responsibility.

Although the world of Dragon Maid has been very different from its previous life since the 90s.

It has not actually solved any of the world's class contradictions, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the class stratification and clan politics that are already very serious in Japan.

In other hot spots on Earth, although there are no more large-scale local wars...

Things like human trafficking, underground organ markets, and large-scale drug trafficking have also been cracked down on.

However, poor countries are still poor, and countries that need medical and food aid still need aid every year.

The world is gradually getting better.

But it hasn't gotten good enough yet.

In addition to the differences in distribution methods, nationalities and production relations, the most important factor is the constraints of productivity and science and technology of this era.

Although there has been no talk of a war that can solve all problems once and for all on Earth since 100 years ago.

However, in Anna's opinion, the war 20 years later that will determine the upgraded status of the two worlds is more like a way for the guardians to solve all existing problems on Earth once and for all.

Their basic plan is to develop enough technology and then use war and external forces to forcibly unite the human beings on Earth into one force to achieve a leap in civilization.

As for the hostile elements lurking among humanity and the remnants of the old world...

Of course, those guardians also intended to carry out a one-time cleanup through the war that affected all boundaries.

It turns out that Anna had thought and planned the same thing before coming to this beach.

But now, she feels that she used to focus too much on the future 20 years later and the overall situation of the two worlds, and thus somewhat neglected the ordinary people living in this world.

Japan, as a direct-administered region and model of the United Nations, can almost be regarded as the happiest region on earth.

However, there is still helplessness and oppression visible to the naked eye.

Japanese office workers like Kobayashi certainly understand these frustrations when they return home exhausted every day.

However, due to limitations in their abilities, lives, and the inertia of adult thinking, they know they can't change anything, so they can only stop thinking about it and accept this reality.

But for several new gods and ambitious guardians, it is a great irony that they have not even been able to transform the directly governed model areas.

So after explaining to Thor and the others, Anna had to once again re-examine and think about her original plan.

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After Anna finally displayed the hundreds of abnormal objects she had scanned in the 3D projection...

Naturally, the few of them could no longer stay on the beach of this ocean park.

Although other places don't have things as exciting as ashes, this place has a lot of things that every public beach should have.

Like the excrement of cats and dogs that were brought in, the dead skin that the men and women who picked their feet picked off while sunbathing, and some people who didn't realize it urinated directly in the sea water...

There's nothing strange about this; all public beaches and public swimming pools have this kind of thing.

This is actually the reason why Anna and her family never go to public places in the United States to play or consume.

After learning about these not-so-good things, which were only a few dozen meters away from them, although they were buried quite deep, Kobayashi and the others could no longer stay in such a place.

The final solution was for everyone to get on the restaurant's van and fly off into the sky...

Then they searched eastward and southward in the Pacific Ocean, and finally found an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean that looked like an emerald gem.

Because there is no fresh water on the island and it is off the main shipping channel, there are no human traces here except for a stone tablet erected by a certain country to claim sovereignty.

Kanna, Caichuan and their group also enthusiastically played the island exploration game here.

As for Anna, who spoiled everyone's fun.

After Kanna and Caichuan had enough fun, they pulled her out of Caichuan's body and made her a little maid, responsible for making beds and preparing food for everyone.

Well, when everyone wants to play the watermelon game.