Later that evening, just when Aurelia city drew into its bustling nightlife—every news station got to talking about a major topic that's been going increasingly viral worldwide.
And that was the Chicago Mass Erasure Event… a name coined mere hours after the disaster.
"As those who've been evacuated from the city of Chicago and beyond are accounted for," a male reporter spoke for the BBC, "new estimates on how many people lost their lives have been confirmed. The current number is three hundred and fifty-two thousand people. Gone in what many call the second-worst disaster in American history since the Emergence."
"No bodies. No injuries. No signs of their existence at all except for what we have in their records. And even till now half of the city is covered in nothingness, completely inaccessible."
"Yet despite the severity of this… the United States Federation appears to be quiet. Sure they've reassured citizens and the government that everything is 'under control' as always…"
