The Chinese ambassador to Singapore had already submitted an application to the Singaporean authorities, requesting the arrest of the two individuals who had secretly entered the Sci-Tech Biotechnology Research and Development Centre.

At the time, when Magiccoin had just been released, not only were Americans monitoring Zheng Li, but China, England, and Japan were also monitoring him.

Chinese personnel filmed the video, which showed not only the two individuals but also another person driving a specially made SUV.

The release of this video further proves that this was a group crime.

After the incident escalated, both Musk and Tesla China defended themselves on Weibo. Yes, Musk also has a Weibo account and posts quite frequently.

As the most important battleground for public opinion in China, even divorce disputes between Americans and Japanese are debated on Chinese social media platforms like Weibo.

Musk said on Weibo:

"Neuralink's technology is entirely self-developed. Founded in 2016, Neuralink has a deep technological foundation in the field of brain-computer interfaces. Kechuang Bio is also a formidable competitor."

However, the theft of their data has nothing to do with us, and the appearance of Tesla employees in Singapore is purely coincidental.

If I really did this, I would never send a Tesla employee to do it. I'm not that crazy. Tesla is a new energy company, not a 007 training ground.

Not only Tesla employees but also Microsoft employees were present, indicating that this incident is absolutely unrelated to Tesla.

Tesla Singapore will fully cooperate with the Singapore police investigation and will definitely get to the bottom of this matter.

Netizens weren't buying it:

"Why did you have to demonstrate brain-computer interface with a mobile phone right after the theft of Kechuang Biotechnology? Isn't that a bit too coincidental?"

"Do you think we're idiots? What a coincidence!"

"Let's see what they're made of. We'll see how your brain-computer interface phone turns out by the end of the year. Don't make a fool of yourself by releasing a brain-computer interface phone that's only made in China."

"Let's see if America still has the nerve to accuse China of stealing their intellectual property."

Musk felt completely cheated. The data he received was given to him by a high-ranking military official, and he could vaguely guess what force had obtained it.

Musk simply didn't expect that the CIA agent's ostensible identity was that of a Tesla employee, which was incredibly unlucky.

They held an emergency meeting with the public relations team overnight, asking them to find a way to shift the blame and handle the emergency public relations. They also gave Neuralink a firm order to use the technology route of Kechuang Bio to develop English-language brain-computer interface mobile phones.

"Elon, we vehemently deny any involvement of Tesla in this incident. Your response on Weibo should be directed at the public, not at Zheng Li."

"We don't need to pay attention to Zheng Li's questions. What we need to do first is to publicly clarify to the public that the whole thing was the personal behavior of a Tesla employee, and has nothing to do with the company, let alone you personally."

"Furthermore, we can wait until the matter has calmed down and the hype has died down before issuing a detailed and complete report."

"In the report, we will use an appropriate descriptive approach to blur the details of the event, leaving room for a middle ground, and then at the end of the report, we will solemnly reiterate Tesla's position and stance."

"Then they hired online trolls to confuse the public's memory, replacing their memories of Zheng Li's Weibo posts and China's official language with Tesla's explanation."

This tactic is a common method used by the American fifth column: replacing your own memory of a certain event with the memory they want you to remember through keywords, serious statements from online trolls, and other means.

The information here was actually prepared by them; they used it to support their desired conclusion.

“This process takes time, but it’s a fundamental solution. As long as the Chinese government doesn’t get involved directly, Tesla’s reputation can be reversed in this way.”

"Although sales will still decline, it will definitely not be a significant drop."

Tesla's public relations head was the first to come up with a solution.

If Musk had known that Tesla employees were involved, he would never have tweeted about Neuralink.

Another important reason he tweeted was that Neuralink needed to secure Series B funding.

Neuralink was founded in 2016, and the 59 million US dollars raised in its Series A funding round is almost gone. In addition, it is now conducting research and development along a completely different technology route than before, and it needs to recruit people and conduct large-scale experiments.

Neuralink is running out of money and needs to launch a new round of venture capital. One of the purposes of the tweets is to raise the price of Neuralink.

Now, forget about raising the price; Neuralink's Series B funding round has fallen through, or rather, he was the only investor in the Series B round.

The evidence presented by Huaguo and Kechuang Bio is too closely related, making it difficult for Tesla to clear itself of suspicion.

What's even more troubling for Musk is that Tesla's corporate image in the Chinese market has been severely impacted, with orders plummeting and a large number of customers who had already placed orders requesting refunds.

Tesla's stock price plummeted, even though this was during the peak season for new energy vehicle stocks.

As a result, the stock prices of domestic car companies have surged one after another, and the ETF index of the new energy vehicle sector has risen by more than 2 points for three consecutive days.

Domestic new energy vehicle companies led the gains with Sokon Group, BAIC Blue Valley, and Great Wall Motor.

The market is optimistic that Chinese companies will seize the market share of China's new energy vehicles that was vacated by Tesla after this public opinion battle.

Just like how Huawei and rice saw a significant increase in market share after the Samsung explosion scandal.

Musk deeply regrets it; Tesla has already suffered a severe blow before it has even achieved the benefits of brain-computer interface.

China is one of Tesla's most important markets. Not only is the market important to Tesla, but Tesla's Shenhai Gigafactory is even more important.

Lei Jun was very anxious. He knew that the hot topic would only last for a while, and the market vacated by Tesla's sharp drop in sales would soon be occupied by other manufacturers.

There's no sign of DaMi making cars yet. Once he actually does, the benefits Tesla is reaping from this incident will have absolutely nothing to do with him.

However, there's no use rushing these things. Building cars is much more difficult than building mobile phones. There are many tests before a new car is launched, including durability, sealing, NVH, drag coefficient, and so on.

These tests will be more rigorous for a new car company.

XPeng took 54 months from its founding to the launch of its first car, Li Auto took 54 months, and NIO took 42 months.

As for Mr. Jia and Mr. Xu's plans to manufacture new energy vehicles, one is still struggling to keep up, and the other will probably remain forever in the promotional videos.

Even though the new energy vehicle industry chain is more mature than it was a few years ago and the difficulty of manufacturing cars has decreased, it would still take at least three years for Da Mi to manufacture cars.

Lei Jun was anxious but also hoped that Zheng Li's lithium battery development would give Dami's new energy vehicles a core advantage.

Just like how we can get our hands on Qualcomm's latest chips, the data speaks for itself, and that's our core advantage.