When the morning sun rose again, Gotham City returned to the top of the nationwide trending charts after only a few days.
The reason was simple. Bruce Wayne, Gotham City's richest man and a perennial top-three fixture on the United States' rich list, had suffered a terrorist attack on his estate.
Videos had already spread across the internet. That dazzling beam of light was followed by footage of Wayne Manor reduced to a massive crater.
At the same time, Hawaii announced that Bruce had not appeared there.
As a result, speculation over whether Bruce Wayne was dead or alive also shot up the trending charts, becoming the focus of nationwide discussion.
If he was dead—even his son Damian—then, given that he had no other direct relatives, who would inherit his hundreds of billions of dollars in personal wealth? And who would take control of the Wayne Group's trillions in assets?
For that very reason, once the market opened, Wayne Group's stock price took a devastating hit. Within minutes, it hit the daily limit down as venture capital firms, Wall Street funds, and retail investors began dumping shares.
At the same time, another piece of news concerning Gotham City made it into the top ten trending topics.
More than a dozen wealthy Gotham families, including the Boris, Johnson, Lombardon, and Washington families, were exposed one after another.
Drug trafficking, arms smuggling, human trafficking, bribery, election manipulation, and other crimes were all listed in extraordinary detail and posted directly online for the whole nation to witness. The kind of evidence that could not be erased no matter how hard anyone tried.
The Gotham Police Department dispatched officers overnight to make arrests. According to internal sources, Commissioner James Gordon's phone had been ringing off the hook. After all, in the United States, wealthy