Return Countdown 72:00:00.
Midnight.
“Shendai Consortium must give everyone an explanation!”
“Shendai get out!”
The municipal center of City 20 was surrounded, thousands of people gathered here.
The staff inside didn’t dare to go home, because walking out of the municipal center would result in beatings and brick throwing.
During the 11 days when communication with City 10 was cut off, people only knew that a disaster had occurred there, but they didn’t know what kind of disaster it was, or why it happened.
No Conglomerate came out to explain anything.
Reporters arrived at City 10, but were stopped by a cold Metal Storm outside the city walls.
During these 11 days, the people were confused.At this moment when everyone was confused, the statement jointly issued by the president, dozens of members of parliament, and hundreds of celebrities played a decisive role in public opinion.
Through this video, the people began to understand the ins and outs of the disaster and began to become angry.
Shendai Consortium and Koshima Consortium’s online water army companies began to move, they were going to muddy the waters.
Within 10 minutes of the video’s release, Shendai’s controlled Federation official media began to refute the rumors: the video was fabricated by a technical expert, all AI face-swapping results, the video was not the president himself, and the celebrities were all fabricated.
The water army on official media said it was AI face-swapping!
“Those who spread rumors are so hateful!”
In this era of the Inner World, there is no right or wrong on the internet anymore. It all depends on who is more shameless to grasp the right to speak.
The more lies you tell, the more they become true.
Moreover, AI face-swapping technology is itself a technology that people deeply hate, especially after AI face-swapping is applied to live broadcast technology, no one knows what the anchor on the screen actually looks like.
From time to time, news of a 60-year-old man impersonating an 18-year-old girl will appear.
This is a virtual network era without a basis for trust.
There are three mainstream social media platforms on the Federation network: Link, Nebula, and 1357.
Link is controlled by Shendai.
Nebula is controlled by Li Clan.
1357 is controlled by Chen Family.
Qing Chen chose Nebula to release the video to avoid being banned and even had a home-court advantage to ban some water army accounts, although identifying accounts takes some time.
When the water army started to appear, online public opinion began to reverse, and many people began to forward the refuting statement and then condemned those who made the statement video.
The people who were demonstrating also stopped, stopping one by one outside the parliamentary center in the northern city, not knowing whether to continue to protest against Shendai and Koshima.
But an accident happened. The president’s social media account suddenly commented under the refuting statement: “Please don’t lose your conscience for money, and don’t let the sadness of the times become your sadness.”
The people were stunned. The president even started using his account to fight back? Was the video fake, or was the account also stolen?
Before everyone could react, those members of parliament and celebrities also began to fight back using their social media accounts.
After the president finished, it was the turn of those most powerful rap singers, one by one they simply recorded Diss videos, using single rhymes, double rhymes, and everything else, completely Dissing Shendai and Koshima.
Then, the social media accounts of various celebrities began to post photos of the aftermath of the disaster, mainly focusing on the hardworking and brave people of the Lower Three Districts.
Everything was real.
Qing Chen paced back and forth in the Garrison Troops camp, while the president and celebrities sat on small military stools, holding their phones.
Like a group of primary school students, they were very obedient.
Unlike Shendai and Koshima’s water army companies, Qing Chen’s water army company may not have many people, but they were all elites.
Qing Chen said: “It doesn’t matter if they reverse right and wrong, what’s important is that you have special identities, you must use your celebrity effect to let more people know what happened here. Don’t be too formal, being formal won’t bring you food.”
A celebrity raised his hand at this time: “I’ve posted ten, and the views have reached 10 million.”
“Qing Ye,” Qing Chen said with a smile, “give our big star a small bread and a bottle of mineral water.”
The president also raised his hand: “I posted two, but the views reached 200 million, with over 400,000 likes! And over 400,000 forwards!”
Such data appearing on a single social media platform has basically reached the level of everyone knowing about it.
Qing Chen said with a smile, “Qing Ye, pour our president a glass of whiskey and give him a cigar!”
Speaking, he looked at the others: “Finish early, enjoy early. Look, you all have fatal handles in our hands now, logically, I only need to threaten you, and you must obey, but I’m not that kind of person. Now we emphasize an equivalent exchange, whoever completes the task first can get some benefits.”
A thin-looking celebrity, a guitarist from a famous band, asked: “Can I take drugs after completing the task?”
“No,” Qing Chen shook his head, “This thing is the bottom line in my opinion, but I can help you detox.”
This celebrity immediately became angry: “Didn’t you say that anything can be exchanged? If you don’t give me drugs, I won’t post.”
Qing Ye smiled: “Slap him.”
A soldier beside the celebrity slapped him, and the rap singer who had suffered a loss immediately gloated.
Qing Chen continued to smile: “Come on, let’s start a new wave of rhythm, Qing Ye, distribute the photos of the refugees to everyone, each person chooses a picture to post, now we are playing the empathy card, we must arouse the sympathy of Federation citizens. Also, remember to state that City 10 does not accept donations, don’t let some hypocritical charities profit from it, you must state that any organization accepting donations is making money from the disaster.”
Making money is one of the important issues Qing Chen has to face. In three months, if he wants to get Qing Family resources, he will have to pay!
There is no free lunch in this world, and Qing Family can’t keep supporting more than six million people for free.
Therefore, how to revitalize City 10 within three months is Qing Chen’s most urgent task.
But he doesn’t want to make money from this disaster.
Qing Chen said: “Don’t worry about other things for now, everyone should quickly catch up with the rhythm of public opinion, it will be 1 am in half an hour, finish early and go to bed early.”
At this time, online public opinion once again showed a one-sided situation. No matter how hard Shendai and Koshima’s water army companies tried, they couldn’t match the social media accounts of the president, dozens of members of parliament, and more than one hundred celebrities.
They may have tens of thousands of water army members, but the problem is that Qing Chen’s water army, although small in number, were all elites.
Moreover, Li Clan was on Qing Chen’s side, and a large number of water army accounts were identified and banned one by one.
The bosses of those water army companies silently watched the posts and photos posted by the celebrities on their phones.
To be honest, the opposing water army companies probably never expected that one day, a colleague would use such a powerful water army team.
The perpetrators of the disaster probably didn’t expect that the consequence of not killing all the politicians in City 10 in the first place would be so serious.
Until 1 am, all the political leaders and celebrities completed their tasks, and everyone returned to their 16-person dormitories to sleep soundly.
Only Song Niao Niao and a few others slept in officers’ single rooms. These people were too cooperative, so cooperative that Qing Chen felt a little embarrassed to keep them.
Before returning to the dormitory, Song Niao Niao looked at Qing Chen with bright eyes: “Do you want me to stay up late? Many water army members only act at night, and their number is more than you think. If I stay here, I can continue to speak out.”
Qing Chen shook his head: “No, the next battle won’t be online.”
Song Niao Niao was stunned, but didn’t say anything more.
Qing Chen asked: “Do you need anything? I’ll have someone get it for you.”
This first-line actress was too cooperative, making Qing Chen feel a little embarrassed.
However, Song Niao Niao just smiled and said: “I don’t need anything, I live a simple life, goodnight!”
After 1 am, Shendai and Koshima began to prohibit their controlled six cities’ IPs from logging into other social media.
In other words, the citizens there could no longer open “Nebula” controlled by Li Clan.
In the public opinion war, everyone started to use any means necessary.
Seeing that the president’s side had stopped, Shendai and Koshima’s water army companies immediately launched a large number of water army members to carry out a new wave of online rumor-mongering.
The platform they posted on was “Link” controlled by Shendai, and Li Clan could no longer ban their accounts.
Moreover, the number of comments from the water army was so huge, it was overwhelming.
This time, the water army company was prepared. Those internet profiteers who fed on human blood received huge sums of money from Shendai and Koshima, and decided to launch all their water army members to carry out a thorough reversal of black and white online public opinion war.
These people only took half an hour to push down all the hot searches of the president and others!
At this time, Nangeng Chen sent hundreds of addresses to Qing Chen in one breath: “Chen ge, these are the addresses of the water army members. 80 of them were found by Matrix, they are quite capable.”
“Received,” Qing Chen replied.
Since Li Shentan appeared, Yi disappeared, like a little Princess under house arrest, never appearing again. Fortunately, Nangeng Chen and Matrix, such Time Traveler hacker groups, finally grew up.
Qing Chen sent these hundreds of addresses to Luo Wanya in one breath: “Physical ban them.”
The next moment, the Lower Three Districts Guardians’ Union in various cities started moving. They followed the addresses and went to each house.
What kind of people are water army members? Of course, they are the poor people in the Lower Three Districts who want to earn extra money. Five mao per post, everyone earns a lot of money, and the labor cost is very low.
In fact, if AI artificial intelligence technology is advanced, there is no need for so many people, but the Federation prohibits the private development of artificial intelligence, so manual water army still has its use.
Little Seven carried a baseball bat and walked towards the Ninth District of City 22. He made a few gestures, and the Home Families swarmed into several buildings.
At this moment, several middle-aged men were sitting in the room, frantically posting and topping posts, and then sending the data to their superiors to settle their salaries.
With a bang, the door was kicked open, Little Seven carried an iron rod and looked at all the water army members in the room with a half-smile: “Let me see what you are posting?”
The water army members were shocked. Why is there an offline strike? They have never encountered this situation before!
The water army members panicked: “Guardians’ Union? What are you doing? We are just posting online, the Federation has freedom of speech, you must abide by the law!”
Little Seven sneered: “I think we’ve been too kind to you, making you forget our identity. In the Lower Three Districts, we are the law!”
Since the method of online banning doesn’t work, then use physical banning.
The current Guardians’ Union has spread to 25 cities in the Federation, and almost all Lower Three Districts in all cities will be integrated.
In this case, it is not an exaggeration for the Home Families to say that they are the law of the Lower Three Districts.
Although this force is still unable to contend with the Federation’s group army, it is equivalent to using cannons to kill mosquitoes when used to fight the water army; it is a waste of talent.
After only 30 minutes, the bosses of the online water army companies found that 90% of their once proud water army had gone offline and lost contact.
One second, the water army was still posting “Song Niao Niao has so many scandals, her words can’t be trusted?”, the next second, the person was gone!
The bosses of the water army companies were stunned. This was the first time they had seen someone play with them like this.
After another 30 minutes, a water army company boss was gone.
At this point, the public opinion war had come to an end. Shendai and Koshima had no place to stand online.
Those accounts of Shendai and Koshima were all precisely destroyed. Some of the water army members who had disappeared earlier, after learning about the Guardians’ Union’s stance, actually helped to attack Shendai and Koshima for free.
It wasn’t because they had a strong sense of justice, after all, what kind of justice could water army members have? It was just that those people were really enjoying the convenience brought to the Lower Three Districts by the Guardians’ Union.
So, a sense of division suddenly appeared on the “Link” platform controlled by Shendai.
Some accounts were still posting “Council Member Song Min lied to the people when he campaigned for votes before, don’t believe his words, whoever believes him is a dog” one second.
The next second, this account started posting “I’m sorry, I misunderstood Council Member Song Min, I choose to believe him! Woof woof!”
After such accounts appeared, not only the onlookers were stunned, but even the management of Link was stunned. Should they ban these accounts or not? Whose side are these people on!
The public opinion war was won.
The people of more than 20 cities in the Federation began to take to the streets to cheer for City 10.
In City 20, people even pushed down the statue of Shendai’s first patriarch and graffitied abusive words on the memorial square.
Soon, Shendai began to deploy soldiers to suppress the demonstrators, and tear gas made the whole city seem to be filled with smoke.
Shendai and Koshima were desperate, and they began to use force to suppress the situation.
However, at this time, public opinion came like a tide, and the workers responsible for transporting materials and building forward bases began to strike, and even the rail transit in the city was paralyzed.
The Shendai, Koshima, and West Coast fleets that were originally going to continue south were forcefully dragged in place, giving Qing Family and Li Clan time to recuperate and adjust their strategies.
The Federation had people launch public opinion wars before, but this was the first time a public opinion war affected the strategic deployment of the Conglomerate.
It was bustling online, while Qing Chen, who was deeply involved, sat on a rooftop thinking: “How can I get City 10 running? What can become the pillar industry here, allowing Daybreak and Guardians’ Union to truly take root here?”
The army needs to be fed, the people need food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and after three months, Qing Chen will have to support everything alone.
But City 10 is in ruins, and more than half of the population is gone. Industry can’t be revitalized at once.
This place needs people, a lot of industrial and technological talents.
With people, there can be industry.
“I don’t know how my brother did it back then,” Qing Chen sighed.
He suddenly realized that the old man on Ginkgo Mountain left everything here to him, and set a three-month buffer period, actually hoping that he would learn how to govern a city in three months.
When he understands how to govern a city, he can continue to learn how to govern a country.
Qing Chen has had several teachers in his life.
Li Shutong taught him Cultivation.
Li Xiurui taught him his original intention.
Shadow helped him win people’s hearts.
Now, the old man on Ginkgo Mountain seems to want to teach him how to shepherd the people.
But this is something Qing Chen doesn’t really want to learn. As he said to his master Li Shutong, if a Knight is trapped in a city, he is no longer a Knight.
If he spends his whole life on government affairs, he may become the second Li Xiurui, and then when he is old, he will sit on Qingshan Cliff and watch the sunrise, secretly regretting it.
The teachings of Li Old Master using the last part of his life, now conflict with what the old man on Ginkgo Mountain wants to teach him.
Qing Chen sighed.
At least he has to wait until the six million people in City 10 can eat before he can talk about anything else.
Qing Chen thought for a while and sent a message to Nangeng Chen: “Are there any profitable projects recently?”
Nangeng Chen became interested: “Chen ge, aren’t those presidents and celebrities at your place recently? You can have them shoot blessing videos for everyone like African-American brothers, that stuff makes a lot of money. You can also send them out to host weddings, one can earn hundreds of thousands.”
Qing Chen directly added Nangeng Chen to the blacklist, intending to let him out after a while.
What kind of money-making methods are these? Nangeng Chen has been following the Conglomerate’s heiress for so long, how come his vision hasn’t broadened yet?
How can he attract people from other cities in the Federation to contribute to City 10?
At this time, Qing Chen suddenly thought of a question. He asked Qing Ye to call up the president with gray hair. The president was sleepily brought over by Qing Ye: “What’s the matter?”
The scene was a little strange. The president of the Federation was unusually polite to Qing Chen, the young man.
In the night, the young man seemed to be able to cover the sky with one hand.
Qing Chen smiled and said: “I’m also here to thank you for your contribution today, it was very useful.”
“Thank you?” President Ning Zhiyuan asked doubtfully.
Qing Chen put his hand on the president’s head, and poured Knight True Qi into it, giving him a spiritual empowerment!
The next moment, half of the president’s gray hair turned black visibly!
The president only felt that his aging body had regained some vitality.
Qing Ye watched silently, with a look of surprise in his eyes.
The immortal touches my head, my hair turns black, and I receive longevity.
The Zhunti Method clearly states that those who receive empowerment can increase their lifespan by 21 years. This empowerment is a method used by immortals in ancient times to win over followers, and there is no need to teach Breathing Technique.
Increasing lifespan by 21 years, I wonder if this will be attractive to the people of the Federation?