Sometimes, public opinion was like that white line you saw from afar while watching the tide at the shore. In theory, you knew the high tide was coming; but you had to wait until the waves truly slammed into the coast, churning up mud and sand into murky surges dozens of meters high, even flinging people and vehicles away and sweeping them off, before you could truly understand that terrifying power.
Of course, putting yourself in the middle of it was something only an idiot would do.
As a veteran fan leader and paparazzi photographer who had spent years rolling around in fandom circles, Zhong Man had stirred up and manipulated public opinion in her earlier years. Gradually, she came to fear the terrifying power within it and chose to keep at a respectful distance...
But she had always felt that, after "watching the tide for years," she understood public opinion fairly well. She could generally grasp what sort of public opinion would lead to what sort of consequences.
Yet when she stood in the middle of an empty supermarket and could not even find a cup of instant noodles, she suddenly realized that the so-called "public opinion" she had once feared and respected was, compared with a true tidal wave, nothing more than bursting pink bubbles. They were not even on the same level.
On Monday, July 15, the Star Alliance Committee released its so-called "declassified documents" concerning the "Deep Blue World." There was almost no buildup at all before a flood of related information came crashing down from every direction, instantly swallowing everyone.
Everyone!
People like Zhong Man still barely had the presence of mind to question whether this wave of public opinion had been spread a little too "neatly." Was someone, or some organization, pushing it from