The skinny guy's worries weren't unfounded.
When people had only words and pictures, all kinds of legends began to flourish. Some had even been passed down to the present day, handed down alongside human civilization.
And it wasn't just the stories themselves that had survived. New "stories" kept growing out of them. How many people claimed to have personally experienced the dead returning on the seventh day after their death? In the West, there were plenty of people who said they'd seen werewolves or vampires, or believed in mediums and witches. It seemed as though everyone had the third eye and could casually run into ghosts and genuinely capable experts.
Of course, some of them really had encountered such things. More often, though, it was all in their heads.
And people had already believed in these things despite the lack of conclusive proof.
The absence of hard evidence made more people willing to believe in science.
But in this day and age, when audiovisual recording technology was so advanced that live broadcasts could be streamed around the world, "hard evidence" was no longer impossible to come by.
In the past, people had taken pictures of UFOs and monsters. The low resolution and blurry images meant they could be dismissed as fakes. These days, fewer people photographed UFOs or monsters, and that was taken as further evidence that they didn't exist.
But if the world kept getting worse, then sooner or later someone would capture clear, undeniable footage of ghosts and monsters, just like in this livestream by the daredevil.
When that happened, it would shake the world. No one would be able to keep denying it.
I couldn't imagine what would happen then.
People with the third eye could at least stay calm. We could see ghosts and know where