The Special Affairs Bureau's machinery rumbled into motion. While calling to chew out their own field operatives, they had already rolled up their sleeves and begun cleaning up the mess:
"Suppress the trending topics! Suppress them!"
"Leave posts from real people alone. Ban a batch of those paid troll accounts immediately!"
"Run that video through AI!"
"Make a long-take clip! Hurry!"
"Claim that some company is preparing to film a similar short drama! This is promotional material! The content? Haven't you seen the recently popular Escape from the British Museum? If you haven't, go watch it right now!"
"No, don't make just one. Make at least three to five! Behind-the-scenes footage, breakdowns of how it was filmed, give them everything... Make it convincing!"
"Oh, right. Dig through the stock footage library, find similar incidents, and release some ambiguous information... Muddy the waters!"
Ah, so exhausting. Once a supernatural incident was exposed to the public, it took a hundred times the effort to cover it up and fish in troubled waters.
Why couldn't they just raise a wand and cast Obliviate on everyone...
Uh, wait. With the internet so developed these days and information spreading so quickly, it was practically viral fission.
If they wanted to solve this with Obliviate, the staff involved would probably vomit blood from exhaustion. Even if they pushed Apparition and Obliviate to the limit, they still couldn't erase memories on such a massive scale...
No matter how kind and cooperative it was in front of Shen Le, the Special Affairs Bureau was ultimately a powerful department.
And given its special responsibilities, it also possessed extensive authority over publicity, able to directly block, suspend, and delete many posts and even accounts—
Of course, the publicity staff understood that "online incidents cannot be forcibly suppressed; the more posts