Chapter 1057: Chapter 1056: What Just Happened Was Our Doing

Not to mention Lu Zheng was just starting to eat, while outside the entire Greater Los Angeles Area was already in chaos.

It’s not about the chaos of the scene, but the chaos of people’s hearts.

Even though nearly ten thousand rioters were committing crimes, setting fires, and looting everywhere, most unrelated citizens were indifferent, and even the government institutions functioned as usual because such events were common.

But, nearly ten thousand people mysteriously combusting at the same time and disappearing instantly is too terrifying.

And the eyewitnesses were not one or two, nor ten or a hundred, but thousands!

At the same time, countless related videos began to spread wildly on the internet, because apart from reporters and cameramen, there were countless bystanders filming with their phones, and even rioters themselves livestreaming, then combusting during the livestream, the scene was immediately replayed by many viewers and recorded, spreading everywhere.

"WTF!"

"Oh my god!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"They disappeared! All disappeared!"

"The rioters who were just committing crimes, an eerie red light flashed across their bodies, then they instantly combusted!"

"I saw it! It was fire! It must be fire!"

"It was just a moment, a second? Maybe at most two seconds, and they were burned away!"

"Really gone! I seemed to see a puff of smoke being blown away by the wind, but there was no ash!"

"No traces, no traces left, just a pile of clothes!"

"As if the person never existed!"

"What’s going on? It’s said that this situation appeared in the Greater Los Angeles Area?"

"So many people! Suddenly gone, my God, what happened?"

"Wuwuwu, my dad died!"

"God, God appeared, he brought down divine punishment, Judgment Day is approaching, all evil people will face the sanctifying fire’s punishment!"

"Amen! May God be with me!"

"No, not God, that’s the flame from the Devil, it’s Satan, it’s Lucifer, humanity has used its own evil thoughts to feed, summoning the Demon out of Hell!"

"God! Please judge this world!"

"Devil! The seven deadly sins incarnate in the world, the greatest evil is coming, the apocalypse is imminent!"

It must be said that when facing eerie and incomprehensible phenomena, religions appear, within less than half an hour of the video beginning to spread, several evil cult leaders were already stirring up chaos.

"Believe in Spiritual Life Sect, God will take you on the New Age Noah’s Ark."

"Join True God Sect, the Garden of Eden will open a ticket for you."

"The omnipotent Promise Sect Sect Leader heard the voice from the Holy Hall."

The Lighthouse Country Los Angeles was already one of the world’s top cities, and the protest waves of the past few days were also one of the globally watched news.

Thus, this wave of massive disappearance immediately presented itself to the world.

"Quick, quick, quick! All videos labeled with Los Angeles, spontaneous combustion disappearance, and eerie, get them offline!"

"Already notified! But a large batch of videos has spread, we didn’t clear them in the first instance, now it’s hard to block them!"

"All Los Angeles police are on standby, also assemble the California National Guard to enter the city!"

"Recruit FBI, CIA, NSA stationed in the Los Angeles Area, and all government employees!"

White House, Congress, Pentagon, various intelligence agencies...

Freemasonry, Skull and Bones Society, major financial groups, various churches...

All forces in the Lighthouse Country qualified to sit at the table were in an uproar, organizing meetings, investigating the event, and searching for the truth.

"Collect all related videos, analyze them frame by frame, look for anomalies!"

"Inquire into everyone you know outside, exchange intelligence!"

"Gather the background information of those who combusted...missing over the past year, no, three years!"

"Ask witnesses everything they saw!"

"Inquire about any unusual incidents recently discovered in the Greater Los Angeles Area!"

"Investigate the entire process and those behind this protest event!"

"Investigate the transformation from protests to riots, and the participants involved!"

"Call the leaders of those APPs, have them assist us in investigating all data information of the missing personnel!"

One order after another was quickly issued and executed with high efficiency.

No way, nearly ten thousand people, disappeared in an instant, it’s still unknown whether it’s a technology or magical means, everyone is scared, scared this might happen to them!

So everyone was anxious and eager, and cautiously searching for the truth.

Anxious to find the truth, cautiously afraid of finding the truth, after all...

The current situation is too terrifying, completely beyond the imagination limit of the Lighthouse Country people.

"Is there a scientific explanation? Don’t tell me it’s God or Satan!"

"Temporarily... haven’t yet, but many professors in related domains from California’s universities are rushing to the scene."

"Which domain’s professors?"

"Life studies, pharmacology, environmental studies, human studies, and... philosophy and theology..."

"Hiss... alright, maybe, maybe some help? Have the police protect them to avoid being scattered by panicked public."

"Sir, now there’s no populace on Los Angeles streets, those still on the streets are on their way home."

...

Thus, when Lu Zheng and his party returned home after dinner at the Chinese restaurant, they only saw cars speeding past on the streets and pedestrians rushing with panic in their eyes.

Only police cars flashing lights and various anxious but professional government employees remained.

"Heavens!"

The assistant exclaimed, startling the hotel driver.

"What kind of supernatural event is this! Online everyone says Los Angeles is cursed!" The assistant glanced at the phone and then outside, "Sister Xiaodao, let’s leave tomorrow!"

"You’re overthinking it."

Zhao Xiaodao said calmly, "Our flight is booked for the afternoon after tomorrow, do you think after today’s events, there will be tickets left for tomorrow?"

"Eh?"

The assistant instinctively switched to the booking platform, only to find all flights departing Los Angeles for tomorrow were sold out.

Yes, all, regardless of destination, all sold out, not a single ticket left.

The assistant, "..."

Upon returning to the hotel, they discovered it was quiet, all guests stayed silently in their rooms, and the waiters were quiet without making any noise.

The night made it even more terrifying, everyone trembled in fear awaiting the next day’s sun.

Lu Zheng and his group returned to their floor, arrived at the suite door, and sent the assistant to rest while bringing Zhao Xiaodao and Zhang Weili to the suite’s living room to sit.

Upon seeing both of them curious, excited, restless, nervous, and hesitant, Lu Zheng and Si Lingxi and the other girls couldn’t help but laugh.

"Yes, you guessed right, the incident that just happened, was done by us."