Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: But nothing more happened, and people gradually returned home. Choices: 1. A lot of events occurred, driving more and more people to the area. 2. Nothing else occurred, and eventually people went back home. 3. After the gold rush hype died down, people realized there was no reason to be there anymore.

3