Chapter 345: For the sake of forging Jin alone
News of a Buddha's halo appearing on White Cloud Mountain before sunrise soon made its way onto the fluff pages of several online forums.
Editors on some web portals used wildly exaggerated language to describe the "Buddha's halo phenomenon" photographed by the tourists.
And the only pictures they posted were two blurry shots of light reflected in the clouds.
It had clearly been an extraordinary sight, yet this counterproductive presentation, which put most readers off, successfully made ninety-nine percent of curious onlookers lose interest after clicking through and taking a glance.
It was surely just more obnoxious clickbait, another publicity stunt for some tourist attraction, some optical phenomenon-most likely nothing more than the glow of sunrise.
Some of the tourists who had filmed videos did upload them, but they had already missed the opening scene when they started recording. All they had captured afterward was a blurry video of something glowing. After all, it had been before dawn; how well could a phone camera possibly perform?
The Cyber Police, however, downloaded these videos and passed them to the Special Security Team.
Internally, the Special Security Team had naturally received reports from several outposts near White Cloud Mountain immediately. But compared with the soldiers' unease, the higher-ups' response was subdued. They simply told the troops to stay alert and left it at that.
The senior leadership also flatly rejected the proposal from high-ranking military officers in the White Cloud Mountain area to send patrols into the mountain.
In truth, the Special Security Team had always attached great importance to White Cloud Mountain. After all, the world's first confirmed evolved animal had appeared there, and it was also the only evolved beast Dawn had ever personally taken away.
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