52 Television

There was no one on the island. The trees swayed in the wind, and the ocean licked the sandy shore of the island. In the sky above the island, seagulls were constantly circling, dropping chemical weapons on a giant rock that lay in the middle of the island.

"I will not see this island!" thought Torterra. He is used to absorbing radiation deep at the bottom of the ocean, where there is no one but him. At the bottom of the ocean, even fish were hard to find, but here on the island something he did not expect was happening - the whole island was teeming with life.

Despite the fact that there is a high radiation background, this did not prevent animals from living here. They didn't even know what kind of island it was and what was on it. It cannot be said that radiation does not affect these animals. It hurts them and causes them a lot of problems, but there are so many animals and they breed so fast that it only amounts to 10-15% of their population.

The same is happening now in Chernobyl. Radiation affects the fertility of animals. Many animals are born with defects. This percentage is not large, but it is absolutely unacceptable for people. Despite this problem, the number of animals in Chernobyl is increasing. Many animals that are in the red book live there without fear of people. This zone has turned into a reserve where people do not go.

There are strange people who travel there and paint different images on the walls of the abandoned city of Pripyat. This is a type of extreme tourism. But no one dares to hunt animals in this area or fish in the rivers. It is said that there are catfish so big in Chernobyl's rivers that they even hunt birds that walk near the shore. The exclusion zone is only 30 km long, but it is enough to feed many animals.

"It's time for me to leave here. It's been 4 months since the clone attack. Since no one came to Torterra, that means the Marshal didn't need his help to fight the Kaiju. The Kaiju should have attacked a month ago.

Regaining enough energy, he stood up and headed for the ocean. The birds circled above it, displeased with the behavior of this stone, and scolded it all the way until it sank into the ocean.

It was nice to hide in the cool water from the scorching sun. Torterra was on his way to his island. He didn't have anything special to do, so he was thinking of doing construction and training. He wanted to expand the island because it was getting crowded.

He was in no hurry, so he swam underwater, sometimes surfacing. During the sudden change in pressure, his body tingled, and he played with this sensation (if he were a human, his blood would boil from the change in pressure and he would die from this). He was bored, so he invented all kinds of strange things to occupy himself.

He didn't have some super high IQ to build himself a Iron Man suit. It was just big. He couldn't even use normal human things. His claws were so big that it was impossible for him to even open the car door without breaking it. Not to mention doing something high-tech.

A memory flashed through his mind when he was watching One Piece and Franky pulled a small hand right out of the palm of his main hand. He used these small hands for delicate work. Torterra smiled as he imagined himself with such small hands and as he sat and looked through the microscope at the miniature monitor of the mobile.

To be honest, after spending 7 years without the Internet, he got used to it. He wasn't drawn to it, but if he had the chance, he wouldn't refuse if he had a movie theater in his house.

"Why don't I just ask people to give it to me?" he thought, tilting his head to the side and scratching it with his claws. It was completely surrounded by water and was in free submersion. Relaxing, he slowly sank to the bottom, but it was so far that he could just rest and enjoy the ease that freefall brings.

"It's kind of embarrassing." If he goes up to people and says, "Give me a TV." All he will get in return are smiles and jokes.

"It is necessary to make it so that they themselves offer it to him! But how to do it?" His desire to watch TV in order not to be bored was not serious. He could do without it, but he was really bored, so it was possible to play with people a little. It was not necessary to constantly fixate on the fight against Kaiju.

At this time, he completely sunk to the bottom, both in the literal sense and in his insidious plans. No idea was adequate enough.

When he stood with his feet on the bottom and raised the cloud of silt, he noticed a metal structure under his feet - it was a sunken ship! It was completely covered with rust and half submerged in the ground.

An evil smile appeared on Torterra's face. He felt something similar when he scared criminals who dumped radioactive waste into the ocean. An interesting idea came to him, and he liked it.

After slowly digging out the ship, he took it in his hand and headed for his island.

POV: Yun

A young blogger from Korea flew to the island of Torterra. Sometimes famous reporters or bloggers were allowed to visit it in order to make their reports for the public.

Such shows have become popular all over the world. Various stories from the lives of Jaeger pilots or various films about Torterra or Kaiju were in demand around the world and collected a lot of money. Despite the fact that the Pacific region suffered greatly from attacks, the rest of the world lived beautifully in peace and development. Except for high taxes and riots, nothing happened there.

Surprisingly, one of these countries was Korea! They are very lucky and have never been attacked. The reason for this was Japan, which was next to them. In order to get to Korea, Kaiju had to pass through Japan.

The only problem was the pollution of the ocean due to the blue blood, but thanks to the appearance of strange plants near the island of Torterra, this problem was successfully combated.

The plants were of different types. Some absorbed blue blood, while others produced it. When people wanted to clean the shore of pollution, they planted plants there that absorbed the toxin. After the water was purified, the plants no longer had a source of food, so they died and people harvested them. It was very easy to collect the plants thanks to the 10-20 meter robots.

These plants were given the common name PCT (Plantae caeruleae toxicæ) - it was an abbreviation from Latin. But the people called them simply "turtle plants".

Both plants and robots were very popular in Korea. It was like a fan frenzy and you could see a lot of advertisements for anime and movies with robots and Kaiju everywhere. There were even new super heroes who could control blue plants. One of which could release blue plants from its body. He got the ability when, as a Jaeger pilot, he got blue Kaiju blood in his cockpit and then Torterra breathed fire on him.

This hero gained the ability to produce blue plants, and he merged with his Jaeger, providing him with an endless source of energy.

All these entertaining stories were very popular and famous bloggers have long visited the island of Torterra and filmed their videos about growing these strange plants. Everyone except Yun. She was not very popular, although her content was much better than others. For some reason, it sometimes happens that a certain video gets a million views in a day, and another doesn't get even 10. It so happened that there was no such super video in Yun.

"I've waited so long to get here that it's no longer relevant. And what am I doing here?" The only interesting topic was the Kaiju attack and the Torterra-like creature attack. And these two topics are strictly controlled by the Government. No one can publish anything without the authorities' knowledge.

These were martial law conditions all over the world. Censorship has already become common, but what began after the attack of the new turtle went beyond all limits. Favorite news about it was removed from the Internet. No news of where another turtle came from could be found. There was only the version of the government that he came out somewhere from the Chinese mountains.

People had many questions. For example, if he was of natural origin, then why was he so evil? Why could he breathe orange fire? Torterra couldn't breathe orange fire before being nuked. Why did he have problems with his body proportions, and why was his skin so pale?

In the darknet, everyone shouted as one that it was a failed clone of Torterra! But no one had any evidence. And people believed the authorities, like some kind of zombies, without even checking the information.

"Maybe I'll get lucky and get an interview with our big boy?" It was the dream of everyone who came to this island. But Torterra is always absent. This is no longer the island of the Titan, but the island of the Gardener.

Thinking of the gardener, Yun looked at the old Hunter standing at the edge of the island. It was covered in brown streaks of rust and looked battered by time. Salt water and dirt did not color him. People around him were running and going about their business.

"Miss Yun! I am the commander of this base. Follow me to my office. We need to talk about the rules of being here and show you where you will be living for the next few days." A man with a stern face approached Yun. She was allowed to spend a few days here because it was quite a long way to fly here and could only be reached with cargo helicopters that replenished supplies at the base.

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