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sudden departure event occurred. In the beginning, people were concerned about what was going on, and scientists and theologians gave separate explanations, but neither was completely convincing. Subsequently, the two factions began to attack each other, looking for loopholes in each other's words. After a period of time, the two sides were unable to give a satisfactory answer, and the debate continued. However, people's thoughts began to change. Some people left because they had no relatives, or they didn't care about the people who left, or buried their grief in their hearts and gradually returned to normal work, study and life. Another part of the people, especially those who lost relatives and friends in the event, could not get rid of the grief of the disappearance of their relatives, so various localities spontaneously or involuntarily established various organizations to help each other. Some people become pessimistic and hopeless about the world after the incident and lose the meaning of life.
At the same time, various magic sticks also appeared, either claiming to be able to help others, or claiming to be able to save the world. These people use charisma or other means to gather members and create cults for money and sex.
Going forward, why, how, and what happened, these questions have not been answered for a long time, and some members of the organization have become more and more extreme. Because these people either can't get rid of the grief of their loved ones leaving, or are pessimistic and hopeless about the world, they have accumulated resentment in their hearts and have nowhere to vent. Instead, they begin to dislike those who have returned to their normal lives. They also don't care what happened, they just think you can't be so casual and assume nothing happened. They feel that you should keep in mind that "something happened".
Some organizations may receive support from consortiums, have think tanks, and begin to formulate teachings, practice methods, and principles of action, conduct regular church activities, and develop members. They began to provoke those who had returned to normal life, creating troubles and occasional frictions.
At the same time, organizations around the world are closely monitored by the ATFEC (a government agency specializing in tobacco, alcohol, weapons, gunpowder, and cults).
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---The establishment of the small town Baiyijiao, according to the plot speculation
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After the incident, Wayne, a black man, publicly declared that he could help people out of pain, established a cult, and called himself a saint. The sect recruits college students who are not deeply involved in the world as members, distributes weapons, and has no daily church activities. It is completely supported by Wayne's personal charm. It maintains its operation by selling hugs, and has relationships with many Asian girls in the church. After violating the law and being charged, the organization went underground. Rumored to have helped MPs in the Capital Territory.
Two years after the incident, the Silent Atonement Church was established in the town. The way of practice is pure and bitter, silent and silent, and smoking. The silence may come from "whatever cannot be said should be silent", the mapping event itself is incomprehensible. There may be two explanations for the atonement. One is that Christianity believes that people are born with sins, and the other is that most of the members hoped that the people around them would disappear before the incident. Smoking is highly symbolic and may reflect silence. And because their ideal goal is to break free from all shackles and return to blankness, the official members are all dressed in white. The principle of action is non-violent resistance.
Baiyijiao's daily church activities are cross-checking the information of people who have left their relatives and confirming the development target. Then assign two full-time members to follow them all the way, silently watching the development until they either tire of driving them away, or join them shortly after. If the residents of the town have group activities, the Church in White will send members to the scene to assemble into silent protests. Because of their silent and non-violent resistance, they couldn't fight back or scold them.
Within one year of its establishment, Baiyijiao has developed more than 50 members, and bought some blocks as activity venues. The properties they buy will be painted white. Frequent frictions with town residents. At a homecoming dance, they rallied and defied the residents, but fortunately there was no bloodshed. But their relationship with the residents of the town has become increasingly tense, and recent frequent activities are vigorously developing new members.
After the incident, the government set up the Department of Sudden Departure (DSD), which is responsible for the distribution of pensions to the bereaved family members.
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---Analysis of the mentality of the main characters, speculated according to the plot
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The male protagonist Kevin, before the incident appeared to be working well and living a happy life, but he was under a lot of pressure and was ready to leave home run away. Unexpectedly, he stayed, but his wife and son left home one after another. Now the police chief of the small town, he is strong on the surface, and secretly takes a lot of psychotropic drugs. Or because of drug reasons, or genetics, there are signs of schizophrenia, and there are two thoughts of good and evil in the heart. Indifference to departure events.
His wife Laurie, a former psychologist, had an unexpected pregnancy before the incident, but she did not inform her family. She was stressed and unprepared for pregnancy. The fetus left at the time of the incident and has now joined the Baiyi Sect.
His son Tom was neglected by his biological father before the incident. After the incident, he saw two university alumni jump off the building to his death and dropped out of school in pessimism. Later, he joined Wayne's cult and ran errands to pick up customers who bought hugs. In a state of confusion, he doesn't actually believe in the religion he joined, but he doesn't know what he really wants, so he means to live with it.
Daughter Jill, before the incident, found that her father had a tendency to leave home, but after the incident, her mother left home, and now lives with her father and attends middle school. Affected by events and family changes, she is in a state of complete decadence, and she does not think that the bereaved family can get out of their grief.
Amy, her daughter's classmate, and her parents may have left during the incident. She is now living with Jill at the hero's house, and she is optimistic.
The father of the male protagonist, schizophrenic and resigned after the incident. (Is that May 1972 National Geographic a waste of footage)
Pastor Matt, whose wife was paralyzed in a car accident. The non-recognition of the departure event is the final judgment, but a trial. He is always looking for the evil deeds of every person who has left, and he prints it out in large numbers, repeatedly saying that people should know the truth. This kind of morbid behavior is not understood by normal residents, and it also provokes hatred from the bereaved family. (The line about leukemia is not clearly explained.)
Nora, the gun girl, was started looking for a job again by the housewife before the incident. Her husband and two children left at the same time. I usually pretend to be normal, but in fact, I have not yet come out of grief, and now I suddenly leave the business department.
The godmother had a premonition that the end of the world was imminent before the incident. At the same time, she was kicked out of the house by her husband's harsh words. She asked Laurie for psychological counseling. Now as the godmother in white.
The murdered woman in white, who was the owner of a pet shop before the incident, has now joined the White Cult.
Meghan, whose mother died of illness the day before the incident, is now preparing to marry her boyfriend, but her heart is actually full of grief.
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