Weird Apocalypse: Rebirth Starts with Trillions of Ghost Money

Despite this thought, Chen Mu did not panic.

The ghost money in his ring was his greatest asset.

Chen Mu opened the newspaper in his hand, and the first thing he looked at was the top of the five stacks of newspapers, the one that was spread out.

The newspaper's headline, "[Overall Overview Interview Report]," set the tone for the entire paper.

Chen Mu glanced at it and saw that it was all the same clichés:

This is a world full of peace and love. There is no quarreling or anger here, only tranquility and peace.

Pedestrians strolling along the street all wore smiles. Everyone obeyed traffic rules; no one jaywalked.

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The next four pages were filled with nothing but nonsense.

Finally, in the last sentence, a little bit of content related to the interviewer appeared:

Our interviewer went there and, experiencing it firsthand, couldn't help but say: "This is truly the world."

Looking at this line of text, Chen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, as if trying to understand its meaning.

Xiaoye picked up the next newspaper and glanced at it casually.

Newspaper content:

Our interviewers have arrived in the world depicted in the "Overall Landscape Interview Documentary." It's 11:30 AM now. Let's interview this driver and hear how wonderful this world is: ( )

The interviews were nothing more than asking passersby to say things like "the world is a wonderful place."

Xiaoye flipped to the next page:

Our reporters have arrived in the world depicted in the "Overall Landscape Interview Documentary." It's 10:50 AM now. Today, we won't be conducting interviews, but rather experiencing the details firsthand.

However, some of these newspapers have fill-in-the-blank sections, requiring interviewees to say things to prove the beauty of the world;

Some of them had no blanks at all; they were all filled in with templates, and there wasn't a single empty space on the entire newspaper.

"Boss, some newspapers don't have blanks filled in. Does that mean we don't have to do them?" Xiao Ye flipped through the pages.

“I see that on average, one out of every two newspapers doesn’t require filling in any blanks. Does that mean our actual workload is reduced by half?”

Compared to Xiaoye's optimism, Chen Mu appeared much more cautious.

Chen Mu looked at the newspapers, and just as Xiao Ye had said, the newspapers were mainly divided into two forms.

One type is the conventional one, which Chen Mu calls "fill-in-the-blank" newspapers—a whole article of nonsense plus one fill-in-the-blank sentence.

Another type is newspapers that don't require filling in the blanks, which Chen Mu calls "non-fill-in-the-blank" newspapers—like "Overall Landscape Interview Reports," which are full of nonsense and don't even require filling in the blanks.

At first glance, the latter seems simpler because it requires no work at all.

However, Chen Mu keenly observed that this was not the case!

The latter is even more difficult.

Take the first newspaper article, "Overall Landscape Interview Report," for example. The last sentence, "[Our interviewers went there and, experiencing it firsthand, couldn't help but say: This world is truly like this]," although there's no blank to fill in, contains four crucial words—

Be there!

This means that interviewers cannot lie, so they must truly immerse themselves in the world being described.

The question mark inside is quite obvious: is the interview location truly that world? Or, to put it another way, does it deviate from what's written in the "Overall Landscape Interview Documentary"?

If there are deviations, then the world must be corrected.

This is where the real intensity comes in!

Other similar "non-fill-in-the-blank" newspapers also hide such pitfalls.

It not only requires interviewers to reshape the world into the described form, but also demands that they pay attention to detail and conform to the otherwise nonsensical description.

"Non-fill-in-the-blank" newspapers are more difficult than "fill-in-the-blank" newspapers!

However, these are just Chen Mu's guesses for now. To verify them, he would have to go to the interview location and see for himself.

Chen Mu put down the newspaper in his hand and said to Xiao Ye, "Let's go and take a look at the actual situation first."

Xiaoye said, "Boss, should we bring some newspapers? Are we just going to go empty-handed?"

Chen Mu glanced at him and slowly said something that sent a chill down Xiao Ye's spine.

"If we had brought newspapers the first time, we might not have been able to get out."