Strange stories had surfaced in the United States in recent weeks, telling of a female ghost with long black hair, wearing a white bathrobe and carrying a long, narrow metal case on her back as she walked from west to east. Along the way, she had killed quite a few junkies, robbers, and rapists. Her route ran in a straight line from California toward New York, crossing the entire United States and bringing a considerable drop in crime along the way.
At first, everyone online thought it was nonsense. But gradually, as this mysterious woman made her way east from the westernmost reaches of the United States, the traces she left behind were iron and fire, and evil that had vanished. This was nothing short of a miracle made manifest, a biblical legend appearing once more in the United States! America truly was a city upon a hill, a nation blessed by God!
A new religious sect was founded, called the Church of the Latter-Day Ark. Most of its members believed in the prophecy that the world would end in 2012. They considered this woman the Noah of a new age, an angel of judgment, measuring the earth with her footsteps and counting how many people were worthy of salvation.
Old Tang brought the "angel" to Brooklyn. The once-chaotic neighborhood was now clean and tidy. Damaged roads that had gone unrepaired for years had quickly been fixed with donations from charitable people. There were no suspicious cigarette butts, syringes, or strange liquids on the ground anymore, either. Everyone wore a smile and had become thoroughly polite.
"What's going on here?" Old Tang was astonished. Surely, no matter how rapidly the world changed, it couldn't make these junkies turn normal overnight?
He suspected that the few days he had spent at