Online Traces

It was clear that a massive number of accounts, many of them registered only very recently, were swarming beneath these previously leaked posts and messages, replying frantically!

Even within the Russian internet circles, niche private forums that had begun discussing the "abnormal coma" phenomenon over half a month ago suddenly saw a sharp surge in actual traffic the moment things were exposed! A skyrocketing surge! A frantic surge!

Especially those vague posts and cries for help from back then that had been sneered at by mainstream users as "precursors to mental instability," "delusions of you cowards," or "caused by drinking too little vodka, or perhaps too much," were now being analyzed word for word by quite a few people, complete with translations in multiple languages.

Some netizens even posted timeline comparison charts compiled from various data sources, clearly marking the subtle overlaps between the various timestamps in the declassified materials and replies beneath the White House's official press releases and these "marginal discoveries."

Everything spoke for itself.

Certain emerging trending sections flooded with over fifty thousand new users in less than half a day, and the pinned post in particular, the Dream Experience Sharing Registry, had now accumulated a total of several thousand so-called "personal experiences."

Even the moderators finally had to issue a warning at the top of the forum in glaring red font—"Unconfirmed statements may result in permanent bans"!

Yet regrettably, to be honest, at least as far as Du Qifeng's actual browsing experience went, among these "shared experiences," the proportion of failed tourists who hadn't even survived a single round was probably low; the vast majority were just delusions or ordinary, bizarre dreams—

They hadn't even come into contact with the concept of the Main God yet, knowing only a parrot-like label of a "collective dream." Could