At the same time, even more people came forward to share their own experiences.
They spoke of many strange things that had happened around them.
There were also those inexplicable missing-person cases.
And all kinds of deaths.
As well as bits and pieces of information they had dug up online, some real and some fake.
Everything pointed to an unknown change taking place in this world.
"It's not that you can't see it. This world is exactly what you think it is."
"Then can you explain why these cases happened?"
"And why has the number of missing people not decreased but increased recently? Our technology is far more advanced than before, and cameras are everywhere in the cities."
"But those missing people still can't be found, even when they disappeared in the city."
"Can't they be found, or have they already been found, but certain reasons prevent them from telling us?"
The online discussions grew increasingly intense.
At last, a decisive figure appeared.
Someone claimed he had discovered a monster, and that his companions had already been eaten by it. He had barely managed to escape alone.
At first, some people thought he was making up a story.
But as the man uploaded more and more evidence—especially a shaky video he had filmed while running, in which the monster's fleeting appearance had been clearly captured—
"As everyone knows, videos can't be photoshopped, so this is real [doge]."
"At first, I also thought this was a group of people using the incident for hype and attention. Since I live in the same city as him, I went to find the blogger."
"I can testify that everything the blogger said is true. All of his friends died. The police have already been called, but since neither his friends nor the monster could