At 10 p.m., the online uproar reached its peak. Seeing that Yuewen Entertainment website did not react at all, several second-tier stars from Yuehai Entertainment stepped forward and called on their fans to protest on Yuewen Entertainment website. The appeal of three to five second-tier stars and twenty to twenty third-tier and below stars was quite obvious. Yuewen Entertainment website visibly gained more than 20 million members, which made Yang Huajin's eyes twitch and Fang Yang grin from ear to ear.
The presence of over 20 million die-hard fans was a significant blow to the laid-back, long-term members of the Yuewen Entertainment website. The site was thrown into chaos and turmoil. It seemed unlikely that any more fish would bite, and without immediate action, the consequences could be dire. Determined, Fang Yang, along with Yang Huajin and a lawyer, headed straight for the nearest police station. It was time to close the net!
At 11 PM, an announcement posted on the official website of Yuewen Entertainment attracted the attention of many night owls: Today, a large number of online trolls, bloggers, and celebrities have been making baseless accusations against our company's chairman, Mr. Fang Yang. An investigation revealed that over one hundred people are primarily involved, causing significant distress and severe reputational damage to our company and Chairman Fang Yang. We have reported this to the police in accordance with the law. We urge those who are unaware of the facts to immediately cease their illegal activities. The internet is a lawless place; please be aware!
The announcement was like a drop of water falling into a pot of hot oil, causing everything to splatter. Other companies would simply send a lawyer's letter as a warning and then have these influential figures and those involved withdraw their posts and apologize. Unexpectedly, Yuewen Entertainment website went straight to the police. This is like lifting the lid and going all out to destroy them, a fight to the death!
This is a huge bombshell! An absolutely huge bombshell!
The blog had never been so lively before. Fang Yang's police report immediately went viral, topping the trending searches! Hundreds of millions of views flooded in instantly. Before the blog's technical staff could even react, the blog crashed. A string of beautiful Chinese characters followed by a 404 error left the technical staff speechless: What happened? We haven't heard of any major incident. Why did the system suddenly crash? Was it hacked?
The technicians stared blankly at the computer screen for a long time before they realized that this was not a hacker attack. Hacker attacks would leave some personal quirks on the screen. This was a pure system crash. But the server in the data center was only added two days ago. How could it crash?
Before the bewildered technician could even process what was happening, his phone rang. His right hand instinctively answered, and his team leader roared from the other end: "Xiao Cao, what's going on? Why did the system crash? The customer service hotline is flooded with complaints!"
Xiao Cao said weakly, "Team leader, I don't know what happened. The system crashed in just one minute, and I'm fixing it now." Realizing what was happening, Xiao Cao's slender fingers traced afterimages on the keyboard, and before the characters could even appear, the page jumped to the next.
"Hurry up! The boss is throwing a tantrum. We have to capitalize on this traffic surge. Several other websites have also crashed. We need to fix them as soon as possible. I'm on my way. Can you fix them first?" The team leader's voice was urgent. Xiao Cao had no idea what had happened; several websites had crashed.
When team leader Qian Minghao arrived, Xiao Cao was already twisting his numb fingers and moving his body.
"How's it going? Is it done yet?" Qian Minghao shouted as soon as he entered the door.
Xiao Cao looked at the team leader as he entered and asked curiously, "Team leader, who is this Fang Yang? He can make our website's traffic exceed 100 million instantly with just one announcement, causing it to crash."
"Oh, I see!" Qian Minghao breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought there was a problem with the server. Fang Yang is really something else." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the traffic surge, which was unusually fast, and said anxiously, "Xiao Cao, hurry up and divert the traffic, otherwise it might crash again!"
Looking at the computer, which was lagging again, Xiao Cao felt like crying. He quickly followed the team leader's instructions to distribute the workload. If it crashed again, the boss would probably come at him with a forty-meter-long sword. Just thinking about the consequences made Xiao Cao shrink back. He didn't dare to think about it.
Seeing the traffic exceed 100 million again, Qian Minghao became nervous and instructed Xiao Cao: "Make room for 80, 90 or 13 servers. Temporarily limit the traffic for those unimportant things, and put all the traffic here with Fang Yang."
Before he could finish speaking, his phone rang. He answered it and saw it was Li Li from Yuehai Media. "Minister Li, is there something you need?"
"What? You want to limit the number of users? I can't make that decision. This has blown up too much. All the social media sites just crashed. This has become known all over the country. If you limit the number of users, my boss will fire me tomorrow."
"Alright, go talk to the boss. This has really blown up. I'm sorry, okay, thank you for understanding!"
Putting down his phone, he saw Xiao Cao looking at him and said irritably, "What are you looking at? Keep your eyes on the computer. Don't mess anything up. If we can get through tonight, things will be better for both of us. Otherwise, who knows what the boss will do to us."
When Yuewen Media released its announcement, Zou Qingbai felt a pang of anxiety. Over the years, Zou Qingbai had done too many unethical things in this industry. He was unscrupulous online, doing all sorts of things, slandering people's innocence, forcing innocent people into prostitution, and even driving several people to their deaths in pursuit of online loans. He had created the infamous Black and White Studio on the internet.
He commands tens of thousands of online trolls. Zou Qingbai is usually arrogant and domineering. This time, having accepted a million-dollar sum from his employer, he went all out to slander Fang Yang to the bitter end. In any case, when it comes to matters on the internet, the first step is always to send a lawyer's letter. At most, he'll offer a perfunctory apology. Are matters on the internet really a big deal? Everyone does it this way. The victim might even be happy. Getting on the front page and making a name for yourself isn't easy. Afterwards, a clarification will make everything fine.
But this time, Fang Yang called the police without even a word. Zou Qingbai couldn't help but curse inwardly, "What a scoundrel! Young people like him have no sportsmanship. He'll only end up worse off this way!"
That being said, Zou Qingbai dared not ignore the impact of this matter. The things he had done over the years could not withstand scrutiny. Once caught, he would be locked up for life. In his haste to delete the data on the computer, the office door suddenly slammed shut, and several fully armed police officers burst in, their dark gun barrels all pointed at Zou Qingbai.
"Damn it, didn't they just call the police? How did they get to the door so quickly?" In despair, Zou Qingbai collapsed to the ground. "The data on the computer hasn't been deleted yet, this is solid evidence!"
Within minutes, news of Zou Qingbai's arrest was published in the Southern Entertainment News. His hands were tied behind his back and he was handcuffed. He was surrounded by fully armed police officers as he walked out of an office building. There were at least a hundred people arrested behind him, and dozens of armed escort vehicles with flashing police lights were clearly captured by high-definition cameras.
The news immediately topped the trending searches, ranking second, and the internet was in an uproar. It was for real, and it happened so fast, maybe within ten minutes?
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