Dragon City's citizens did not have to wait long.
In just a few minutes, before Meng Chao had even finished telling his story, hundreds upon thousands of detailed, vividly written, wildly exaggerated articles surged like a rising tide across major media outlets, forums, and instant messaging apps.
Most of these articles bore titles like:
"This Earthling is Too Ferocious"
That was the general style.
As for the content, it was mostly along the lines of:
"Watch closely. This man is named Meng Chao, and he is currently surrounded by Turanze's three great Orc powerhouses: the Lion King, 'Destroyer's Horn,' the Tiger King, 'Raging Blade,' and the Wolf King, 'Doomsday Demon Wolf'!"
That was the general style.
In short, they were deliberately mysterious, sensational, and exaggerated to the utmost.
At first, quite a few ordinary citizens scoffed at them, assuming these things were fake news churned out by gossip reporters and online tabloid writers skilled at riding trends and hyping up hot topics to grab attention.
If all ten sentences put together had even one piece of punctuation that was true, that would already have been impressive.
The logic was simple. Meng Chao had not even finished speaking, yet all kinds of gossip articles came gushing out with a "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh," like floodwaters released from a dam.
Never mind whether the content was real—even the writers might not have been real people. Nine times out of ten, it was trash automatically generated by computer programs.
However, after skimming through them for half a minute, many ordinary citizens realized that these "fake news" articles were anything but ordinary.
True, the style of most of the "fake news" remained as it always was, filled with irresponsible gimmicks, praise that tested one's intelligence, and startling twists at every turn.
According to these articles,