Physical Ban

Return countdown 72:00:00.

Midnight.

"Kamishiro Corporation must give everyone an explanation!"

"Kamishiro, get out here!"

City 20's municipal center was packed tight, with thousands of citizens gathered outside.

The staff inside did not dare go home, because the moment they stepped out of the municipal center, they would be beaten and pelted with bricks.

During the eleven days City No. 10 had been cut off from communications, the public only knew that a disaster had occurred there. They did not know what kind of disaster it was, nor why it had happened.

No corporation had come forward to explain anything.

Reporters had reached City No. 10, only to be blocked outside the city walls by a cold metal storm.

Over those eleven days, the public had been lost and confused.

And at the very moment when everyone was confused, a joint statement released by the president, dozens of legislators, and over a hundred celebrities became the decisive blow in the court of public opinion.

Through that video, the public began to understand the beginning and end of the disaster, and they began to grow furious.

The troll companies under Kamishiro Corporation and Kashima Corporation began mobilizing. They intended to muddy the waters.

Within ten minutes of the video's release, the Federation's official media outlets controlled by Kamishiro began issuing denials: the video had been fabricated by technical experts, entirely using AI face-swapping technology. The president in the video was not the real president, and the celebrities were all fake as well.

Trolls began flooding the official media comments: "I was wondering why their expressions looked a little stiff. So it was AI face-swapping!"

"People spreading rumors are just too vile!"

In this era of the Inner World, there was no longer any clear right or wrong online. Whoever was more