Chapter 502 - The Excited Internet (1/2)
Chapter 502: The Excited Internet
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The video recorded the same scene as many other people did: a wash of azure light flying up into the sky and seemingly in combat against a plume of dark smoke.
When the camera was zoomed out, it still looked like a sighting of some unknown military weapons.
However, unlike Wegener and many other tourists, the BBC journalist carried professional cameras that can shoot many images that were clearer than from cell phones. Even without zooming in, the viewer was able to see fireb.a.l.l.s and wind blades.
Once the camera zoomed in, the viewers could clearly see the outlines of two men in the azure glow and the dark smoke.
“I am a journalist from the BBC, Amy Grafico. I swore that the footage is real.”
Amy typed a line of comments on her Facebook with shaky fingers. She was in her suit in the most luxurious hotel in Naypyitaw.
She looked out of the window and saw many men in military garb going door to door confiscating tourists’ cameras and cellphones. A few useful things broke out because of it.
“Hurry! Upload Faster!”
Amy looked back at her Facebook page, checking the progress bar nervously.
When the first video came out, she received many mocking comments.
However, mockery in the comments drastically decreased as the second and the third video was posted.
The third video had the best quality and was the most convincing. It captured the moment when Chen Fan unleashed a ray of golden light from his hand and cracked open the Dark Mountain.
“Holy s.h.i.+t! What am I watching?”
Many people who saw the video let out a gasp of cold air.
Amy’s profession and her job at the BBC made her claim much more credulous than that of Wegener. Although the outline of the two men were just two blurry shadows against the grainy background, it had unmistaken human features.
“It’s either a special effect from some award-winning studio, or something really terrifying had happened to our world.”
Someone exclaimed.
These videos spread all over social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and Amy’s personal Facebook page also became viral.
Ten thousand visitors, twenty thousand, thirty thousand…
The number of visitors soon reached a hundred thousand and was still surging.
During the age of social media, information pa.s.sed around with the speed of light. These videos and images had swept across the globe before the government could put up some measures to contain it.
“Battle of Super Humans at the Capital of Myanmar!”
“G.o.ds of The Ancient Civilization Are Real.”
“Biblical Battle Between The Angel and The Devil.”
Most major news outlets could still uphold their professional standards, but the headlines that came out from smaller publishers became increasingly outrageous.
In a few hours, the news had spread to the entire internet outside of China.
Meanwhile, in China…
Ning Jincheng was browsing the Weibo page of his idols when he received a message from his friend in the United States of America.
“Jincheng, look at this. Sages and Deities are real!”
“What?”
Jincheng was dumbfounded.
As his friend sent him more and more pictures and videos, Ning Jinchen was outright astounded by what he saw.
“These are footage taken by a journalist from BBC in Myanmar. People tell me that it’s a battle between a Myanmar deity and a demon. In the end, the deity even destroyed the demon’s lair deep inside the mountain.”
“If you zoom in, you can see a shadow of a man inside that azure glow.”
Ning Jinchen was floored after hearing his friend’s explanation. Then he was overtaken by a rush of exhilaration.
“OMG, this is big news. This is… insane!”
He quickly copy-and-pasted the images and videos onto his own Weibo page.
Ning Jinchen was not the only person who had received and posted these images. It wasn’t long before the news caught on and became viral.
In less than a couple of hours, the news topic “Sages In Myanmar” became the most popular topic on Weibo. The number of searches had quickly reached a few hundred thousand in a matter of hours.
“Are these real images?”
“They look like special effects. Maybe it’s fake.”
“My friend who was touring Myanmar told me that it is real. He said his cellphone and camera have already been confiscated by the Myanmar police.”
The exciting news made many people stay up until midnight, talking and sharing their opinions with other Weibo users. The topic quickly spilled out of the Weibo circle into other Chinese forums and social media platforms.
“So the sages and deities in legends are real?”
“It’s fake. I don’t buy it.”
“I think it’s fake too. It looks like special effects.”
The netizens in China quickly divided into two opinion groups and they carried out a heated debate.