Chapter 132 Returning the favor 08 Greed for fame and glory
Chapter 8
People will find excuses for the mistakes they make in order to alleviate their guilt.
Lu Changfeng said: "Even if you didn't make a choice before, we gave you a choice last time. After repeated questioning, you still didn't choose to confess. Why? Didn't we give you a choice?"
If he had confessed and admitted his fault when questioned by the police, perhaps the current situation would not be like this.
His father might still be alive.
Lang Yuan was unable to respond to requests for comment.
Lu Changfeng asked: "Why didn't you say it at that time?"
"I can't bear to lose the traffic." Lang Yuan said: "The praise on the Internet blinded my eyes."
"You are still making excuses for your mistakes." Lu Changfeng shook his head at him, extremely disappointed.
At the beginning, the members of the serious crime squad had a very good impression of him.
Especially when I learned that he had offended almost all the hotel industry practitioners in Lancheng and did not back down even when threatened with death, I really admired him as a man.
But such a person was no different from them in his previous life. When he could no longer make money by selling other people's privacy, he turned around and put on the cloak of justice, destroyed his peers one after another, and used the blood of his peers to build a golden body for himself.
It's not that bad people can't be reformed.
We cannot label a good person as a bad person just because he does a bad thing, and conversely, we cannot label a bad person as a good person just because he does a good thing.
He knew so clearly that what he had done was bad, and such things could not be brought up openly.
The moment he never mentioned a word about his sinful past and tried to create as perfect an image for himself as possible, it was doomed. This was his own choice, and in the future, if people chose to knock him off the altar because they knew about his sinful past, he would deserve it.
Lang Yuan said ashamedly: "It is because of my greed and vanity that things have become like this."
"How did you collude with your cousin to do such a thing? This time I hope you won't hide anything from us."
At this moment, Lang Yuan had learned a big enough lesson and no longer dared to hide anything because he still had a mother.
He spoke slowly, his mood low: "At that time, I was still working in a software development company, and my monthly salary was only over 8,000 yuan. In Lancheng, a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan is considered a very high salary, but for me, this salary is nothing. Every one of my classmates is doing better than me, and I was very jealous at the class reunion."
"Men like to visit pornographic websites. I saw some people selling secretly recorded videos on pornographic websites. Many families install surveillance cameras in their bedrooms. My cousin's classmate happened to work in a surveillance company. My cousin wanted to resell surveillance cameras and buy them from them to sell online. Because his family was originally engaged in computer assembly and surveillance, their online sales were not bad, and they had experience in running an online store, but his parents did not support him, so he came to me to borrow money. At that time, I had been working for a few years and had some savings, which I planned to use as a down payment for buying a house."
"He told me that he wanted to invest in surveillance cameras and open an online store. I thought of stealing and selling surveillance videos, so I told him that this business was profitable. He thought about it and thought what I said made sense, so he did it."
Lang Yuan said: "We bought some promotional materials. We didn't sell much at the beginning. We only sold a few hundred orders offline and online in a month, and the profit we made was not much. But we didn't expect that the traffic of the videos posted online would be quite large. We made more than 3,000 yuan that month. We invested all the money in advertising. We sold more and more, and the videos became more and more popular. Then one month our surveillance products exploded with more than 100,000 orders. The videos also became popular online. We made more and more money, and we became more and more courageous."
Lu Changfeng asked: "Then how did you discuss it? He will be willing to take full responsibility and protect you later."
Lang Yuan said: "We agreed on this from the beginning. Although the idea was mine, it was his action. I knew this was a crime and he could make a lot of money from it. But after I got my money back, I never asked him for money. He sent me money every month. He also knew that I would never report him. After he was arrested, I was actually worried, but I didn't expect him to be so loyal and take on everything by himself. I also promised that I would take good care of his parents."
"How much money did you take from him in total?" Lu Changfeng asked.
"About half a million."
The total profit they made from selling these things was more than 4 million. Liu Jian gave more than 500,000 to Lang Yuan. In this matter, Liu Jian did a good job in winning people's hearts.
Lang Yuan said: "When the country started to conduct strict investigations, I also advised him to stop. A few million yuan would be enough for him to eat and drink well. He could do some small business and he would not have to worry about food and drink in the future. But he didn't listen to me. He said that the more he was in the limelight, the more money he could make. I didn't expect that he would really fall into it."
While others had heard the news and fled, he went against the wind and committed crimes, making too much noise. After the police took down his website, they checked the transaction data and immediately found him.
This matter is indeed illegal and criminal, but it is also a relatively private matter between brothers. Lu Changfeng asked: "Do many people know that you are involved in your cousin's business?"
Lang Yuan shook his head.
That would be strange.
In what Lang Yuan and his cousin did online, the main actor was his cousin.
The two people did not have any obvious transfer records to prove this matter. Even though they had investigated it so thoroughly at the beginning, they were unable to find anything. How did the judge know this?
Perhaps this question should be asked to Lang Yuan’s cousin Liu Jian.
"Liu Jian said that you provided him with technical support. What did you do for him?"
Lang Yuan told the truth: "Some videos have a particularly high number of views, and people will want to know the personal information of the girls in the video. I will investigate based on the information already in the surveillance video, find out the other party's real information and address, and make this information public."
Lu Changfeng was a little confused: "Publicly announced?"
Lang Yuan nodded: "Some people like to snoop into other people's privacy. They may call the other party, add the other party on WeChat, or find the other party's social platform to follow the other party's every move."
Lu Changfeng: “??????????”
This is not an invasion of privacy, it is condoning crime.
It is hard to imagine that if a girl living alone is targeted by a pervert, knowing the other party's place of work, residence, contact information, WeChat, and further causing physical harm to the girl...
"Anything else?"
"Help the AI change its face."
"AI face-changing?" Lu Changfeng was surprised. "What face does AI change?"
"Some people don't like the heroines in porn movies and want to replace them with people they like. I will help them use AI to replace the heroines in the videos so that they can better empathize with the characters."
Lu Changfeng: “…”
Some well-known female stars on the Internet are the ones who have suffered the most from this type of thing.
On pornographic websites, you can often find videos of them with various face-changing videos.
These things have been on the hot search list many times.
It is really outrageous to destroy other people's reputation by changing their faces in this way to satisfy their own perverted hobbies.
What Lang Yuan did violated the law and hurt many people.
The vast majority of victims are unaware that they have been posted on pornographic websites for others to view and comment on.
Now AI is even more rampant and has been skillfully used by criminal groups for online fraud. The number of people who fall victim to online fraud every year is staggering.
If not for this, Lang Yuan’s mission of teaching people how to protect their privacy would not have been so successful.
When it comes to privacy leaks, everyone is in a state of worry.
The country is also punishing these people, but they are now fleeing abroad one by one, and there are many people involved, so the speed of the crackdown cannot keep up with the speed of their rebirth.
It is very easy for them to do bad things, but it is very cumbersome for the police to investigate.
After finishing the questioning, Lu Changfeng still said to him: "My condolences."
When they arrived at the next room, Zhou Yu also reported the good news to him.
"The identity of the whistleblower has been confirmed."
"Who is it?"
"Liu Jian's cousin Liu Tong is indeed a classmate of Liu Jian."
"Why would he quarrel with Voldemort over the news? Is there any conflict between the two of them?"
Zhou Yu nodded. "Liu Tong has a girl he likes very much. They are already in the process of getting married. The girl's family runs a hotel. Not long ago, Lang Yuan went to fight in the girl's hotel. The police came and asked the girl's family to suspend business for rectification, which caused a loss of a lot of money. After the rectification, their business plummeted and the loss was as high as millions. After learning that Lang Yuan had an affair with Liu Tong's cousin, the marriage was completely cancelled. The day he and Voldemort broke the news happened to be the girl's wedding."
After their marriage was called off, the girl accepted a blind date arranged by her parents, and soon the two confirmed their relationship. Liu Tong always wanted to save the relationship, but the girl's family completely disagreed with the marriage. The girl's relationship with the blind date also became stable. The blind date had a good character and a good family background, which was much better than Liu Tong's family background.
Liu Tong also held a grudge against Lang Yuan because of this, thinking that it was because he had slept in the girl's hotel that he lost her.
It just so happened that Langyuan became a hit online and its traffic soared.
Liu Tong was very upset, and in a fit of anger he disclosed the incident to a few of his favorite anti-counterfeiting internet celebrities.
The first person to notice his message and reply to him was Voldemort, to which he provided Voldemort with detailed evidence.
When Liu Tong broke the news, he had only one idea, which was to expose Lang Yuan's hypocritical mask and let everyone see what a hypocritical person he was.
Now he has really done it and got rid of the anger in his heart.
Lang Yuan was indeed pulled down from the altar and became a rat crossing the street that everyone wanted to kill.
But he never thought that the incident would affect so many innocent people, and even affect him.
Because he and Liu Jian are cousins.
He never expected that this incident would cause Lang Yuan's father to lose his life.
Zhou Yu said: "Lang Yuan did pay a price for this, but the price was a bit painful."
Lu Changfeng nodded.
If you are not greedy, nothing like this will happen.
In fact, it is the same idea he uses to fight against counterfeiting and evaluate others. As long as he does not have evil intentions, he will not end up in a miserable situation. Therefore, he cannot blame others for all this, but only himself.
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