Chapter 149 Jinjiang Debut
Duan Yuying immediately hugged Congcong with concern: "Baby, why do your classmates say that? Is it because they always see you wearing a mask? These kids are really something. What kind of cracked mouth monster are they able to think of? You are just burned. Have you explained it to them? If you can't explain it clearly, mom will go to the class to help you explain it."
Congcong pushed his mother away and said aggrievedly: "No, they didn't listen to my explanation at all. It's useless to say anything now because of this video——"
As he spoke, Congcong took out his mobile phone, opened the class group chat, found a video from the group chat, and played it for everyone to watch.
This is a video of Congcong running on the playground. It was a very hot day and the students were sweating profusely. Despite this, Congcong still insisted on wearing a mask. The first half of the video was normal, but in the second half of the video, Congcong suddenly took off his mask while running, revealing a scary big mouth with two bloody wounds on both sides of his mouth, as if his face had been cut in half.
Congcong opened his mouth wide, rushed forward, and covered the head of the classmate in front of him with his mouth. Then he gritted his teeth, and the head of the classmate in front of him fell to the ground.
This video scared everyone. Although everyone knows that this video is fake, it still makes people feel creepy after watching it. The scariest thing is that this video is very smooth and the special effects are very realistic. There are almost no traces of artificial processing. If children watch it, they will probably believe it.
After watching the video, Duan Yuying turned pale. She hurriedly asked Congcong: "Who did it? Who sent this video to the group?"
Congcong cried and said, "I don't know either. It was posted by a new account in the group. One night, a strange account suddenly entered our class group. This strange account posted the video to the group and then left. The next morning, our class group chat exploded. All the classmates saw the video. Everyone said that I didn't take off my mask because I had a rift-mouthed monster and everyone wanted to stay away from me." "After this happened, no one in the class talked to me anymore. I used to have a few friends, but now I have none. Other classmates go home together after school, but I go to get off work and get off work alone. I am an outlier in the class. I feel very uncomfortable and don't want to go to school, so I pretended to be sick!"
Congcong has been keeping this matter to himself because he knows his mother has a hard time and he doesn't want to add to her burden. But now his mother has brought him to have the fortune told, and he can't hide the truth any more, so instead of having the fortune teller tell it to him, he might as well speak it out himself.
Duan Yuying was so angry that she was shaking all over: "This is too much, who did it? This person is so evil, I'm going to call the police to arrest him!"
Cong Cong shook his head: "I guess the person who did this is a classmate of ours, otherwise how would he know about our class group chat? My classmates are all elementary school students, it's useless for you to call the police to arrest him."
Duan Yuying didn't believe it: "Impossible, look at this video, it looks exactly like the real thing, how could it be made by an elementary school student? I think it's probably a student's parent who is behind this, I'm going to call your teacher right now!"
Bai Mian stopped Duan Yuying and said, "Wait, there is a watermark in the last second of this video, which says 'Guangming AI'. This video is synthesized by AI, even an elementary school student can do it."
Duan Yuying frowned in suspicion: "Has AI software developed to this point?"
Bai Mian nodded: "That's right, as long as you input a piece of text and add a photo, AI can generate the video you want. If trained well, AI can almost make it look real. It's useless for you to go to Congcong's school. The school can't find out who synthesized the video."
Duan Yuying collapsed on the ground and said, "Oh my God, why is AI software so rampant? Is there anyone who can control it? Others can destroy my son with just a flick of their fingers. Is there any justice?"
Congcong was pinching his fingers and looking at his mother with heartache, not knowing what to say.
Bai Mian reached out his hand, gently but forcefully helped Duan Yuying up, and said to her: "Don't be afraid, a person's life is not that easy to be ruined. Congcong has only missed some classes, which can be made up during the summer vacation. After school starts, Congcong can still keep up with the progress of his classmates."
"But, but my classmates are afraid of me..." Congcong said hesitantly.
Bai Mian squatted down and patted his shoulder: "Never worry about the mistakes made by others. If someone uses AI to slander you, that is his mistake, not your problem. You don't need to feel inferior. As long as we find out the culprit behind the scenes, the students will be able to distinguish right from wrong."
Hearing this, Congcong had a glimmer of hope in his eyes, and he hurriedly asked: "Where can we catch him?"
Duan Yuying also looked at Bai Mian expectantly. Bai Mian said slowly, "The person who made this video lives in Building 6 of Xingfu Community. He is also in elementary school this year. He is your classmate Yuan Xiaoshuai."
Congcong was very confused: "Yuan Xiaoshuai? I have no grudge against him, why would he want to hurt me like this? We haven't spoken a word since we went to school. I have always been very taciturn, and so has he. He always hides in a corner by himself and I don't know what he is doing. To be honest, after knowing him for so long, I can't even remember what he looks like."
Bai Mian: "He just used you as an experiment. In the past six months, he has been secretly training AI software. In order to verify whether his AI training is mature, he decided to find a classmate to try it out. One day he happened to run into you on the playground. You always wear a mask. He was curious about your face under the mask, so he secretly took a video of you running on the playground."
"After returning home, he uploaded your video to the AI software. At this time, he recalled a horror legend from Country R that he had seen - the Slit-Mouthed Woman. So he decided to borrow this legend and turn you into a 'Slit-Mouthed Man' so that your classmates would be afraid of you and force you to take off your mask."
"After the AI video was generated, he created a new account, joined the class group chat, and posted the video. He expected that the incident would become such a big deal. He did not feel guilty, but rather complacent. He was very happy that his AI was finally created."
Duan Yuying was furious: "Just because of an experiment, the self-confidence that I worked so hard to build up for Congcong was destroyed. Is he still a human being? This brat has so many bad ideas at such a young age. I will call his parents now and ask them to educate him properly!"
Bai Mian shook his head. "Yuan Xiaoshuai's parents divorced a long time ago, and neither of them wanted a child. They left Yuan Xiaoshuai alone in that house. They sent him money on time every month, and there was a nanny who cooked and cleaned for him, but no one educated him, so he became lawless. It's useless even if you call Yuan Xiaoshuai's parents. They don't want to take care of this child at all."
Duan Yuying said angrily: "Then I will call the police and let them educate this child!"
This time Bai Mian did not stop Duan Yuying, but just said: "Of course you can do this, but I'm afraid the effect will not be very ideal."
After calling the police, Duan Yuying quietly held Congcong in front of the table and waited for the result. At this moment, the barrage in the live broadcast room suddenly became lively.
[Master, go check out the hot searches, something happened to Qi Zian! 】
[As you said, he didn't listen to your advice. He is really asking for trouble.]
Seeing these comments, Bai Mian opened the hot search. Now the number one hot search has become "Qi Zian is a coward". Clicking on this entry, a video jumped in front of her eyes. She saw a beautifully decorated hall full of people. Qi Zian was sitting in the front and signing for a female fan. Suddenly, a male fan jumped in front of Qi Zian and took out a bottle of yellow liquid from his bag. Qi Zian reacted immediately. He pushed the female fan in front of him hard onto the bottle of liquid, then hid under the table. Three bodyguards immediately surrounded him to protect him.
Seeing this video, Bai Mian smiled, while Xia Mang was worried to death: "Hiss - is this the man who threw sulfuric acid? Qi Zian is such a bastard, pushing this girl forward to block the bullet. I don't know what happened to this girl. I hope she is okay. By the way, Master, didn't you say you have taken measures?"
Bai Mian nodded. "I expected Qi Zian would not listen to me. If he canceled the performance now, he would have to refund all the tickets for the audience. He was reluctant to give up this income, so he came up with a workaround. He changed the comedy performance into a live meet-and-greet, and gave each audience an autograph. This way, he saved the income and calmed the audience's resentment."
"In order to leave Qingshui Town as soon as possible, he held a meeting as soon as he returned to the hotel. As a result, this happened right at the beginning of the meeting. In fact, the person who wanted to throw sulfuric acid had already been caught. Just as they were driving away, I sent the suspect's identity information to Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen had already brought people to arrest him."
Xia Mang pointed at the person in the video in confusion: "What about this person?"
Bai Mian: "This is an ordinary fan of Qi Zian. He took out a bottle of fine champagne. He originally wanted to give his idol a surprise, but he didn't expect the surprise to turn into a shock. Qi Zian became stressed when he saw the liquid and took actions to protect himself."
Xia Mang found it funny: "Oh, so this person didn't mean to harm him at all, he just overreacted. What a loser. Since he's so cowardly, why not just listen to you and cancel the event? He's such a loser and greedy! Now, he's using his fans to take the blame. His popularity has all gone, right? No wonder the trending searches called him a coward, he deserves it!"
Lu Xue at the side shook her head. Although the incident was over, she still found it hard to understand: "What kind of deep hatred could make a person do something like throwing sulfuric acid? If you don't like a star, why don't you just stop watching him? Why would you risk your whole life for him?"
Bai Mian sighed: "Actually, the suspect who threw sulfuric acid is also a victim."
Xia Mang couldn't help but retort: "He was planning to throw sulfuric acid on others, and he is still a victim?"
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