Chapter 1438 Rumors
There are not many pedestrians on the streets. In recent years, the earth's population death rate has been terribly high, while the birth rate has been pitifully low. Most human cities now have a small population.
However, the population of this city is obviously abnormally low. For such a large city, you can only occasionally see one or two people passing by in a hurry.
Li Xuan was very disappointed. "I originally thought that the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was in New De City. This should be a very bustling and prosperous city. I didn't expect it to be so desolate."
"It's indeed a bit abnormal. I read the news online before coming here. The population of Xinde City is still three or four million. It's impossible that there are only so few people. I don't know what happened." Zhou Wen was also a little confused.
"Just ask and you'll find out." Li Xuan saw a pedestrian passing by on the street ahead. He dodged and approached the person. He took out a large bill and waved it in front of the person, saying, "Why are there so few people in Xinde City? Tell me what happened here, and this is yours."
The man was suddenly delighted and reached out to grab the money in Li Xuan's hand.
"Let's talk about business first." Li Xuan withdrew his hand, leaving the man empty-handed.
"Most people have moved to Xinma City. Now the number of people left in Xinde City is less than one-tenth of the original number." The man said, staring at the banknotes in Li Xuan's hand.
"Why do you want to move?" Li Xuan continued to ask.
"It's all because of rumors." The man said something that surprised Zhou Wen and Li Xuan. This matter was related to Pandora's Palace.
In Western mythology, Pandora is a beautiful woman created by God and given to mankind as a gift.
At the same time, the gods gave Pandora a magic box, and each god left a gift in the box.
After Pandora came to the world, driven by curiosity, she opened the magic box. It turned out that there was no real gift in the magic box. Instead, curses such as disaster, plague, and war flew out.
Pandora was frightened and quickly closed the box, but she locked up the "hope" left in the box by the goddess of wisdom Athena.
From then on, the world was filled with various disasters. Disasters, plagues, and diseases were rampant, wars broke out constantly, and there was no peace for a moment.
Pandora's Palace is said to be Pandora's residence, but until now, no one has seen what Pandora looks like.
But recently, someone spread the news that Pandora has appeared and will soon open the Pandora's Box, and the nearby areas are likely to become a dead zone.
Therefore, many people in Xinde City who were able to do so moved to other human cities, and most of them went to the relatively close Xinma City, choosing to wait and see there.
After he finished speaking, the man reached out and snatched the money away, then turned and ran away, saying as he ran, "You guys should leave quickly too. It won't be long before Pandora opens her box."
"I want to see what Pandora looks like. I heard that Pandora in mythology is an extremely beautiful woman." Li Xuan said with a smile.
Zhou Wen smiled bitterly and said, "Don't mess around. Judging from the myths and legends, Pandora is likely a natural disaster-level existence, otherwise there wouldn't be all these disaster legends."
Zhou Wen is quite cautious in reality. Even though he now has the strength to fight against the natural disaster, the natural disaster still has the possibility of killing him, so it is not worth risking his life.
Originally, he wanted to go into Pandora's Palace to take a look, but since this happened, Zhou Wen gave up the idea of going in. After all, in reality, he had entered the dimensional realm ten times, and nine times something went wrong.
In this situation, Zhou Wen was even more afraid to go in.
Now Zhou Wen planned to go outside Pandora's Palace and take a look. If he could find the small hand pattern, he would download a copy. If not, he would not go in. Anyway, there were dimensional creatures with suspected doom attributes in other places, so there was no need to hang himself on a tree.
Li Xuan was just talking. Zhou Wen didn't want to go in, and he didn't really want to take the risk.
Zhou Wen held Yaer's hand, and when the three of them arrived near the Demon Palace, they saw a program crew filming a program at the entrance of the Demon Palace.
"It's Su Yi!" Li Xuan's eyes lit up when he saw the host of the show.
Zhou Wen followed his gaze and saw the female host he often saw on TV and the Internet. Zhou Wen recognized her by face, but he didn't know her name.
She is even more beautiful in real life than she looks on TV, with long brown hair, fair skin, three-dimensional facial features, and sharp edges. She looks very charming, with the type of fiery red lips, and has nothing to do with adjectives like quiet and gentle.
Because the program crew was right at the gate, Zhou Wen and his team were far away and didn't go over. They wanted to wait until they left before going over to avoid trouble.
Self-media outlets like the Federal Bureau of Investigation are very well-informed. Zhou Wen had previously been very popular on the Rubik's Cube rankings. If they saw him, they would definitely come over to take pictures or something.
"If it's not convenient for you to go over, I'll go over and take a look first. I'm not a celebrity anyway." Li Xuan greeted Zhou Wen and walked towards the program crew.
Zhou Wen looked around and saw that this magic palace was built between two mountains. Only the gate was exposed to the outside, and the rest of the palace was in the valley.
After observing from a distance for a while, I found a small hand pattern in the stone wall relief next to the gate.
"It really exists." Zhou Wen was delighted. He planned to download the copy after the production crew left, then find out the situation of the Demon Palace from the game, and then decide whether to go in or not.
Zhou Wen turned to look at Li Xuan and saw that he was chatting enthusiastically with Su Yi. He didn't know how they started the conversation.
After a while, Li Xuan actually brought Su Yi towards him.
"Old Zhou, let me introduce you. This is Su Yi, the most popular female host in the Federation right now... Su Yi... This is my best friend..."
Before Li Xuan finished speaking, Su Yi took the initiative to say, "There should be no one in the Federation who doesn't know Mr. Zhou, right? Especially those of us who work in journalism. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Zhou. You are the pride of our species."
"Just call me Zhou Wen." Zhou Wen glanced at Li Xuan, somewhat blaming him for being nosy and why he brought Su Yi here for no reason.
"Old Zhou, it's like this. I heard from Su Yi that the rumor about Pandora opening the box is simply a rumor. They are now doing a program to dispel the rumor." Li Xuan said.
"Rumor? Are you sure?" Zhou Wen was a little surprised. If it was just a rumor, it could have caused almost all the people in Xinde City to run away. The power of this rumor was too strong.
Su Yi said, "Although we can't be 100% certain, and we don't know who started the rumor, there are clearly signs of someone behind the scenes pushing it and hyping it up. It's not news that came through normal channels. Furthermore, up until now, we haven't found the source of the news. We also had companions enter the Demon Palace to take notes, and they didn't find anything unusual inside."
"That's strange. What benefit will it bring to the person behind the scenes by deliberately creating such a rumor?" Zhou Wen frowned and thought.
(End of this chapter)
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