No one could have foreseen that, on this utterly ordinary morning,
the "Black Box" that had suddenly appeared not long ago, shrouding the entire desert and drawing global attention, would vanish in this way.
There was no explosion, no bombardment. Humanity had not intervened in any way.
On this very morning,
the "Great Wall" spanning three hundred thousand square kilometers vanished without a sound!
Just as it had appeared.
What stunned every research team, as well as all the witnesses in the surrounding northwestern cities, even more was that... when the Black Box vanished, the uninhabited desert that should have been filled with flying yellow sand had actually turned into a vast Oasis.
It was so enormous, so impossible to ignore.
Even from dozens of kilometers away, the outlines of the mountains were clearly visible.
Even if they wanted to seal it off, they were powerless to do so.
And when the news spread through every possible channel—to the upper echelons, to the public, to the entire world—it drew the attention of countless people.
"The Takk Black Box has disappeared!!"
On this very morning, in countless cities across the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, whether bathed in daylight or cloaked in darkness,
on an uncountable number of internet-connected devices,
through group chats, news app notifications, and more, this explosive news instantly seized the attention of netizens.
And with the ferocity of a virus, it spread across the global internet.
On countless online platforms, views and discussions of the topic soared at a terrifying rate.
The sharp-nosed media outlets, large and small, rushed to produce articles and videos... then uploaded and pushed them out.
Together, they rolled the topic bigger and bigger like a snowball.
Half an hour later, the topic of the Black Box's disappearance had simultaneously climbed onto the rankings