Chapter Five: Please, Entire City, Don't Believe Me
After two false alarms, residents shut off phones and blocked neighborhood speakers. Influencers drove toward the tower to "expose the third scam." Officials could not verify the energy and merely advised people to keep away; commenters interpreted advised as nothing is wrong.
Outside, Gu Ye told the camera, "The third warning is true. Everyone evacuate now."
A huge black bird squeezed from his mouth. It had Gu Ye's face and repeated, "True, true, true."
Chat exploded.
[HE'S LYING!]
[THE POWER DOESN'T LIE.]
Lin understood first. "You said everyone. People beyond twelve kilometers don't need to evacuate. The ability judged the whole sentence false."
