While Lu Zheng's group had only just begun their meal, the entire Greater Los Angeles area outside had already descended into utter chaos.
Not chaos in the streets, but chaos in people's hearts.
Even when nearly ten thousand rioters had been committing violence, setting fires, and looting for free everywhere, most uninvolved civilians had not cared at all. Even government agencies had continued operating as usual, because such things were common.
But nearly ten thousand people had mysteriously burst into flames at the same time and vanished in an instant. That was simply too terrifying.
And the witnesses were not one or two people, nor even ten or a hundred, but thousands upon thousands!
At the same time, countless related videos began spreading wildly across the internet. Aside from reporters and cameramen, innumerable passersby had filmed with their phones. Some rioters had even been livestreaming when they spontaneously combusted. Many viewers immediately replayed and screen-recorded those scenes, and the footage spread everywhere.
"WTF!"
"Oh my god!"
"They vanished! They all vanished!"
"The rioters who had just been committing violence all flashed with an eerie red light, then burst into flames in an instant!"
"I saw it! It was fire! It had to be fire!"
"It only took an instant, one second? Maybe two seconds at most, and they were burned away!"
"They're really gone! I think I saw a puff of smoke scattered by the wind, but there wasn't any ash!"
"No traces, nothing was left behind at all. Just a pile of clothes!"
"It was like that person had never existed!"
"What's going on? I heard this happened throughout Greater Los Angeles?"
"So many people! They suddenly disappeared, my God, what happened?"
"Wuwuwu, my dad is dead!"
"God! God has appeared! He has brought down heavenly punishment. Judgment Day