Chapter 1362
Rows of Elyndorian medical transport units parked along the perimeter of the tech center.
The hastily erected, high-intensity quarantine sector blazed with brilliant floodlights. Elyndor’s premier medical vanguard stood at the front lines, drenched in sweat.
Critical condition notices were printed out one after another.
Back-to-back remote consultations flooded the monitors.
On the massive displays, medical titans from across the globe were dialed in via transnational uplinks, frantically debating triage protocols with absolute desperation.
Endless streams of vitals and treatment algorithms bounced between international specialists, constantly analyzed and aggressively modified.
Every single soul was sprinting in a brutal race against the grim reaper.
Everyone knew the devastating truth.
Whether these national treasures-beaten to the absolute brink of death by the Obsidian Sun-would survive, entirely depended on these first few agonizing hours. However, just as Elyndor was fighting tooth and nail for every second of their lives,
An incredibly jarring and hostile narrative abruptly erupted from the foreign media outlets.
Initially, it was just a handful of foreign press syndicates publishing thinly veiled, sarcastic hit pieces.
[Is Elyndor really going all out to save the experts? Or are they just seizing control of the board p>
[Global top minds hang by a thread. Are there catastrophic failures in Elyndor’s rescue operation p>
[Why haven’t any of the rescued national treasures cleared the critical list yet p>
[Is Elyndor using this crisis to harvest firsthand biometric data on the world’s most elite minds p>
[Is Elyndor’s rescue mission nothing but a political stunt p>
The headlines grew progressively more disgusting.
The phrasing became increasingly inflammatory and manipulative.
At first, this rhetoric didn’t manage to generate much of a splash. But incredibly fast,
More and more foreign outlets threw themselves into the fray.
“Anonymous insiders” popped up one after another.
[Internal sources report Elyndor’s medical team is deliberately withholding treatment protocols p>
[Families of the experts question if Elyndor is intentionally stalling their care p>
[Rescue or control? Does Elyndor have an ulterior motive in Severia p>
[Who knows what Elyndor is truly plotting p>
[They claim to be saving lives, yet everyone is still on death’s door. If that isn’t gross incompetence, what is p>
[If Elyndor was actually capable, why are these experts still fighting for their lives p>
[I bet they’re just weighing the experts’ value! Save the profitable ones, ditch the useless ones p>
[Ha, why is Elyndor acting like the hero? Do they really think they’re any different from the Obsidian Sun or Severia p>
[From start to finish, it’s all just a power play p>
[This so-called rescue might just be a more sophisticated form of imprisonment p>
This kind of toxic slander was always the easiest way to ignite mass hysteria.
Especially when the lives of these national treasures were hanging in the balance, and the global public’s
nerves were already strung tigh enough to snap.
Very quickly, a portion of the populace took the bait.
People on the international web started mindlessly echoing the attacks against Elyndor.
The public discourse was aggressively muddied.
Which was the exact objective of the puppet masters orchestrating this media storm.
This smear campaign obviously reeked of the Obsidian Sun’s involvement.
It was an army of foreign outlets and paid digital mercenaries violently forcing the narrative, maliciously hijacking every single trending topic.
Throwing mud was never about presenting logical arguments.
It was strictly designed to poison the well.
As long as they could force a fraction of the world to doubt Elyndor.
As long as they could chip away at Elyndor’s absolute moral high ground in the international arena.
The remnants of the Obsidian Sun and the Severian elite would consider it a monumental victory.
In no time, this toxic narrative bled from the internet straight into the physical world, right outside the tech center’s perimeter.
Dozens of foreign journalists
crowded the barricades of the
makeshift medical sector, shoving their microphones into the air screaming aggressively. “Can Elyndor guarantee that every single expert will survive p>
“If an expert dies, will Elyndor accept full legal responsibility p>