Lighthouse Country Takes the Blame. Twelve hours passed quickly. As the sun rose on the second day, the front pages and headlines of newspapers, television, radio, and websites in nearly every country around the world were all dominated by the Los Angeles disappearance incident.
It crushed every other major event beneath it. Local wars, diplomatic affairs, economic exchanges—all of them made way for this bizarre incident that had shocked the world.
It was too shocking!
Too bizarre!
Far beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding!
The only good thing was that most ordinary people now knew that all the missing people had been rioters who had taken part in yesterday's unrest. It had not been a large-scale indiscriminate attack, so most people breathed a sigh of relief and were no longer as terrified as they had been yesterday.
Of course, those who needed to work kept working, and those who needed to live kept living. But the protesting crowds had vanished without a trace, while some criminals with prior records hid at home, trembling like leaves.
At the same time, overnight, California gained several hundred sects of every conceivable kind, while dozens of preexisting sects saw their influence surge instantly.
Church of the True God, Church of Spiritual Life, Church of Promises, the Only Gospel Sect, Church of Holy Fire, Church of Golden Leaves of Heaven, Hellfire Church, Black Wing Sect...
Countless Bible stories, historical legends, mythological tales, and all manner of ghost stories from different parts of Lighthouse Country began spreading online.
Across the world's major social media platforms, it was a scene of demons dancing in wild revelry.
Then, countless conspiracy theories involving the authorities began to spread like wildfire.
Yes, yesterday's incident had been miraculous and bizarre, but neither God nor the Devil had openly manifested themselves.