"I'd just arrived, and already I'd watched a livestream about a haunting."
After closing the livestream app, Jiang Qiao fell into thought. "Without a doubt, supernatural events are becoming more and more frequent worldwide. The measures taken regarding the flow of related information are also different from before."
"There's no more 404."
"Instead, they've chosen to make it public."
"Because banning it is meaningless. Supernatural events are breaking out everywhere, and they're already difficult to suppress."
"It's impossible to cover them all up."
"So they might as well increase public discussion and let everyone gradually accept reality."
"However, different regions have different circumstances. In Dragon Country, for example, videos that are too bloody need to be technically processed, so information is spread mostly through online storytellers and written accounts."
"Even when videos do appear."
"Overall, the hope is to release the information in a controllable way."
"As for Ugly Country..."
"The information here has completely spiraled out of control."
"The internet is teeming with all kinds of madness. Not only are there countless disturbing images and scenes, but all sorts of bizarre organizations are also emerging one after another."
"Promoting extreme theories, doomsday theories, conspiracy theories..."
"It's a complete mess."
Anyone normal who saw the information online here would easily sink into depression and despair.
Eventually, they would completely lose confidence in the future.
However...
When facing difficulties, confidence was sometimes more important than gold.
This wasn't empty talk.
For any existence that had successfully turned the tables from a desperate situation, the first step had been to preserve that final bit of confidence in an unseen future.
Confidence did not necessarily guarantee a turnaround.
But without confidence—
That meant certain doom.
Just as now, with supernatural phenomena running rampant across the globe, if everyone lost confidence, no one would