--00:02:58
Across every streaming platform in America, the live broadcast from DC Washington suddenly flickered. Then a set of brightly colored numbers appeared—or rather, a countdown.
"What's going on? Is my TV broken?"
"Is everyone seeing a strange countdown on their screens?"
"Yes... It's two minutes and fifty-three seconds!"
"What's happening?"
Just as the Americans were wondering what was going on, the largest streaming platform suddenly shrank the broadcast into a small window... Inside the stream, a beautiful female anchor hurried into view with a script in hand.
"Here is a breaking news update. This message has not been verified!" The anchor took a deep breath and looked at the envelope that had appeared out of nowhere in the stream. Her voice trembled slightly. "A modified B61-13 warhead has currently been placed in the central area of DC Washington. The countdown you're seeing is the time remaining until the warhead detonates..."
"What the f*ck?"
"crazy!!"
"god!!"
"cool..."
In an instant, all of America outside Washington, wherever communications could reach, plunged into massive panic... Total panic!
Yet the anchor's trembling voice continued. "This letter appeared in my hands out of nowhere. Please believe me, this is real... Oh my God! It says this specially modified B61-13 warhead can instantly destroy everything within fifteen to thirty kilometers of the blast, and it was personally activated by Director Wayne of the Shield Bureau the day before yesterday..."
In Washington... the major supernatural and nonhuman organizations participating in the Arena Competition were advancing and regrouping in orderly fashion as part of the allied front.
It resembled the scene from old novels where the Orthodox Sects joined forces to besiege their enemy.
The others had no idea what was happening outside... After all, this was a sudden war, and communications had always been