Chapter 149: Jinjiang First Launch

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 a cracked mouth monster, it's a pity they can think of it. You are just burned. Have you explained it to them? If you can't explain it clearly, mom will go to the class to explain it to you."

Congcong pushed her mother away and said aggrievedly: "No, they didn't listen to my explanation at all. Now it's useless to say anything 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 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 was cut in the middle.

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 knew it was fake, it still made people feel creepy after watching it. The scariest thing is that the video was very smooth and the special effects were very realistic. There was almost no trace of artificial processing. If children watched it, they would probably believe it to be real.

After watching the video, Duan Yuying's face 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 sent by a new stranger account. One night, a strange account suddenly entered our class group. This strange account sent 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 was a rift monster and everyone wanted to stay away from me." "After this incident, 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 work and go home alone. I am an outlier in the class. I feel very uncomfortable and I don't want to go to school, so I pretended to be sick!"

Congcong had been keeping this matter to himself because he knew his mother had a hard time and he didn't want to add to her burden. But now his mother had brought him to have the matter told, and he saw that the matter could no longer be kept secret, so instead of having the fortune teller tell it to him, he decided to speak it out himself.

Duan Yuying was so angry that she was shaking all over. "This is too much. Who did it? This person has evil intentions. I'm going to call the police to arrest him!"

Congcong 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: "It's impossible. Look at this video, it looks exactly like the real thing. How could this be made by elementary school students? I think it must be a student's parent who is playing tricks on me. I'm going to call your teacher right now!"

Bai Mian stopped Duan Yuying and said, "Wait, there is a watermark at the last second of this video, which says 'Guangming AI'. This video was synthesized by AI, even an elementary school student could do it."

Duan Yuying frowned in doubt: "Has AI software developed to this point?"

Bai Mian nodded. "Yes, as long as you input a piece of text and add a photo, AI can generate the video you want. If it is well trained, AI can almost be so realistic that it will be useless even if you go to a smart school. The school will not be able to find out who synthesized the video."

Duan Yuying squatted on the ground in despair: "Oh my God, why is AI software so rampant? Is there anyone to control it? Someone can destroy my son with just a flick of their finger. 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 so easily destroyed. 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 in the class."

"But, but my classmates are all 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 fault, 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 were in 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. He then recalled a horror legend from R country that he had read - 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 had expected that the incident would become such a big deal. He felt not only guilty, but also 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 had 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 gave him money on time every month, and there was a nanny who would cook for him and clean the house, but no one educated him, so he became lawless. Even if you call Yuan Xiaoshuai's parents, it's useless. 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 of comments in the live broadcast room suddenly became lively.

[Master, go check out the trending searches, something happened to Qi Zian! ]

[Sure enough, you were right. He didn't listen to your advice. He is really asking for trouble.]

Seeing these barrages, Bai Mian opened the trending search. Now the number one trending search has become "Qi Zi'an stupid guy". Clicking on this entry, a video jumped in front of her eyes. She saw a beautifully decorated hall full of people. Qi Zi'an was sitting in the front and was signing an autograph for a female fan. Suddenly, a male fan jumped in front of Qi Zi'an and took out a bottle of yellow liquid from his bag. Qi Zi'an 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 Zi'an is really a bastard, pushing this girl to block the gun. 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 audience's tickets. He was reluctant to lose 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. When they drove 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 just 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 got stressed when he saw the liquid and took self-protective actions."

夏芒感到好笑：“哦，合着這個人根本就沒想害他，是他自己反應過度，真是個菜狗，既然這麽膽小，那就聽你的話，取消活動不就行了？真是又菜又貪財！這下好了，他還拿粉絲去擋刀，路人緣全都掉光了吧？難怪熱搜叫他慫蛋，活該！”

一旁的陸雪搖了搖頭，雖然事情結束了，但她還是感到難以理解：“到底是什麽樣的深仇大恨，能讓一個人幹出潑硫酸這種事？不喜歡一個明星，不看他不就好了嗎，為什麽要為了他而搭上自己的一輩子呢？”

白眠嘆了口氣：“其實說起來，這個潑硫酸的嫌疑人也是個受害者。”

夏芒不禁反駁：“他都打算給別人潑硫酸了，還是受害者？”