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    Chapter 249

    Strange phenomena have appeared all over the world, and Hua Country naturally cannot remain isolated.

    These strange phenomena treat all countries equally. Moreover, because Hua Country has a large land area, there are quite a few strange phenomena occurring, which have been posted on a short video app by people who like to stir up trouble.

    《A Thanos appeared in the underground garage. If this thing snaps its fingers, will half the cars in the garage disappear?》

    《Got off work late at night and ran into a ghost on the road. Ran eight thousand meters to the police station to report the case》

    《Family members, who understands! Got up in the middle of the night to pee when I returned to my hometown, and was almost bitten off by a hellhound》

    ……

    Netizens were shocked again and again. The comments under each video exploded, and some busybodies even brought back foreign videos. The number of views exceeded 100 million, and tens of millions of people participated in the discussion.

    [What’s the situation? Special effects? A Hollywood blockbuster trailer?]

    [That’s not right, this blurry picture quality, can it be a trailer for a special effects action movie? Doesn’t look fake]

    [End of the world? The Umbrella Corporation is finally exerting its power, deliberately and accidentally letting the experimental subjects run away?]

    [Damn, can these things be real? Really holding]

    [Why are there small videos from our country? Did this movie come to our country to film? No way? Can it be kept so secret?]

    [It’s obviously a trend-following post, poet holding]

    [Also ran into a ghost on the road, the anchor is engaged in feudal superstition, reported ha]

    [It is not allowed to become refined after the founding of the country, haven’t you heard of this rule?]

    ……

    From the moment the first video was released, Hua Country’s internet regulatory department had already discovered it. After confirming the authenticity, it was immediately reported. The news was passed through layers and reached the hands of the third-in-command.

    In the conference room, several elderly people with excellent mental outlook sat at both ends of the conference table. Below them were countless elite people, all of whom were influential figures. However, they gathered here, all for the sake of those videos that were going viral on the internet.

    Before the emergency meeting even started, the people in the conference room were talking to each other in low voices, while the documents in their hands were rustling. From time to time, someone would receive a phone call, and they would immediately answer it, regardless of still being in the conference room, and communicate with the other end of the phone in a low voice.

    At this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a group of people hurried in from outside. The leader was a capable middle-aged woman, she is the person in charge of the new G311 military region, Nie Yaping.

    She stood tall and saluted the elders at the head of the table after entering the conference room. The shoulder badges shone under the light of the conference room, “G311, Nie Yaping.”

    The old man at the head nodded slightly, signaling her and the people behind her to take their seats as soon as possible.

    Zhai Yingyi entered the conference room with Nie Yaping. After also saluting the leaders at the head of the table, he stood behind Nie Yaping after she took her seat.

    With his rank, he originally wouldn’t have been able to enter a meeting of this level, let alone sit down and discuss with the big shots.

    The other researchers in white coats who followed also followed suit and stood in a row behind Nie Yaping.

    Nie Yaping turned her head and glanced at the row of people behind her, lowered her voice, and instructed: “Xiao Zhai stay, you guys find a place to sit down.”

    Several white coats nodded and found empty seats to sit down, leaving only Zhai Yingyi still standing behind her, with a straight back and excellent mental outlook, he looked like a good soldier trained in the army.

    Those sitting next to Nie Yaping were all high-ranking military officers, so it wasn’t appropriate for him to sit next to her, and Zhai Yingyi had an important report to give later, so he couldn’t sit too far in the corner, so he could only stand here for the time being.

    Seeing that almost everyone in the conference room had arrived, the old man at the head nodded to the assistant next to him, and the assistant immediately controlled the computer connected to the conference room projector and opened the content of this emergency meeting.

    “Have you all seen the videos that were circulating on the internet a few hours ago?” The old man’s question also marked the official start of this emergency meeting.

    The people below looked at each other, and one of the people in charge stood up to report.

    “As soon as those videos were uploaded, the public opinion department intervened to interfere with the public’s attention. At the same time, a special action team was sent to investigate the situation. According to our country’s satellite detection and the public’s alarm reports, there are currently 129 known ‘strange phenomena’ occurring. Among them, 93 occurred with eyewitnesses present to report and hand over, and the remaining 36 were detected by our country’s satellite monitoring, mostly located in sparsely populated areas, such as Changbai Mountain, Taklamakan Desert, etc.”

    “So far, all the reports from the special action teams that have been sent out show that there are no abnormalities and no casualties in the local area. All the ‘strange phenomena’ are like mirages, only able to have a deterrent effect, and there is no physical existence.”

    “Have they all been confirmed?”

    “Yes, they have all been confirmed. Our special action team is still continuing to search, and if there are any new discoveries, they will report through the emergency line as soon as possible.”

    The old man nodded and instructed: “This matter is very important, we must put the lives and property safety of the people first. If any abnormal situation occurs, rescue is the primary goal, and the rest can be slowed down. I know it is very hard to handle this matter, but no matter what, you must do your best to handle this matter well!”

    “Understood!”

    The old man looked at the other people in charge, “What about public opinion? Has it caused panic? What is the official statement to the outside world?”

    “The public opinion department is carrying out control. We have already spoken to the people in charge of several social platforms, and we are now doing our best to reduce the heat. There are currently three statements to the outside world. The first is that this is a preview promotion of a foreign special effects movie, and all the videos were stolen through special channels, but this statement is easily debunked, so the focus of our public opinion control will be on the other two statements.”

    “This is a holographic projection newly developed by the country, which is generated through 6G and 7G networks. It is still in the experimental stage, and may hopefully meet the audience at the Spring Festival Gala next year.”

    After the person in charge finished saying this, he took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat, “This statement is the main reason used by the public opinion department.”

    We are currently in a rapidly developing era. Last year’s Spring Festival Gala was still a manual performance of a large chorus, and this year’s Spring Festival Gala can have robots spinning handkerchiefs and dancing Yangko. In addition, the country has long revealed that it is researching and testing 6G and 7G networks, so this statement seems much more reliable.

    After all, technology is changing rapidly, and who knows when we will really achieve mechanical ascension? At least netizens accept this reason well.

    But the person in charge also knows that their technology is indeed developing very fast, but this kind of open-air random projection, and such a realistic scene, is simply not something that their current technology level can achieve.

    They in the public opinion department are also very guilty when manipulating public opinion, for fear that knowledgeable technology enthusiasts will stand up and reasonably refute their statements.

    It’s really an agonizing thing.

    The old man nodded in great agreement, “This reason is used very well, so that we can shift the public’s attention to our country’s scientific research progress, instead of focusing on these small videos. You have done very well, what about the remaining statement?”

    The person in charge wiped his sweat again with a handkerchief, and said dryly: “The remaining statement… uh, was proposed by a young man in the public opinion department.”

    “Oh? Proposed by a young man? That’s very good, we should give young people more room for development now. Our country needs young power to become the backbone of the country’s development in the future.”

    “So it is…”

    “Tell the truth.” The person in charge took a deep breath, and finally spit out these four words.

    As soon as these four words came out, everyone present couldn’t help but frown.

    Tell the truth? What kind of truth? It is obvious that the source of today’s “strange phenomenon” is because of “Return”. Does telling the truth mean revealing that “Return” is actually a real world, and that their world is gradually overlapping with the world of “Return”?

    This is the result that the national research department spent several months of research to finally come to. It still belongs to the country’s top secret for the time being, but because there are many people involved in this action, there are quite a few people who know this secret.

    But this is not a reason to casually put this top secret on the internet!

    “What kind of truth?” The old man frowned and asked.

    The person in charge’s back was soaked, he gritted his teeth: “It is to exaggerate the content in these videos, and pour dirty water on those foreign countries, saying that the experimental subjects in their laboratories ran out or something, and then say that this may be the vanguard sent by aliens to attack the earth…”

    “In short, exaggerate as much as possible.”

    Hearing this, everyone present fell into silence.

    Don’t say it, these statements were actually what they guessed at the beginning, but they were overturned one by one later. Finally, relying on various data arguments, they deduced the fact that “Return” is a real world, and the two worlds are infinitely close and about to overlap.

    And until now, the alien theory still has a small part of circulation among them.

    After all, two worlds that obviously do not belong to the same time and space are inexplicably linked together through a game. It does not look like it happened naturally, but it looks like someone did it intentionally, and aliens are the most reliable guess.

    The old man still frowned, “Wouldn’t that cause panic?”

    Seeing that the leader did not scold him immediately, the person in charge secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the following words were much smoother, “We have experimented, the more exaggerated the statement, the less the masses believe it. If we say it too much, netizens will spontaneously fabricate more exaggerated reasons and post them on the internet, and many people will agree.”

    “According to the young child in our department, this is called… playing stem?” The person in charge hesitated for a moment before continuing, “The more outrageous the reason, the less netizens will believe it, and they will find more reliable reasons for us, and even believe that this is the result of national scientific research, rather than something that really exists.”

    “On the contrary, if we try to cover up this matter, then netizens will think more and more, and may even guess the truth – I finally agreed to let them manipulate public opinion in this direction because of this reason.”

    The old man was thoughtful, his fingers tapped lightly on the table. With the sound of da da da, his brows gradually unfolded, “You are right, this is a very good idea, you have all done very well, work hard, and I will commend you after this matter is over.”

    Receiving praise from the leader, the person in charge immediately felt as happy as if he had gulped down a bowl of iced sour plum juice on a hot summer day. His back was straighter, and he was full of energy when he sat down.

    Those who sit in their position, who doesn’t want to get praise and even commendation from the leader? This is very likely to be the opportunity for them to climb up again.

    Suddenly, the people around him cast complex glances at him.

    The public opinion department can be said to be a newly emerging department in the country now. Before, they were doing some national-level propaganda, and secretly spreading some information about the country manufacturing more powerful weapons or warships or fighter jets, etc., to fool foreign nails buried deep in the crowd.

    These are all on the surface, and this approach has also made the public opinion department affectionately called the War Deception Bureau by netizens.

    But it is not easy to make a name for yourself in doing these things, and now the emergence of “Return” has given the public opinion department a lot of importance.

    As long as the country does not plan to make public the real situation of “Return” one day, the public opinion department will have many uses!

    Even if it is made public, the public opinion department will still have many uses. It can be predicted that the public opinion department will still receive many achievements in the future.

    This can also be regarded as an era creating heroes!

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