Chapter 343: Long Time No See!

February 16th, overcast turning to light rain.

Or one could say sleet; it was terrifyingly cold.

What is Zhou Yi doing? Zhou Yi feels today is an auspicious day, suitable for reporting to the police!

That's right, after a long period of effort, finally, the conditions are ripe; today is the big day for those five elderly people and their families to go report to the police.

Naturally, Zhou Yi definitely has to go with them.

Even for Zhou Yi, he feels tired this time. He is a cheater, yes; the system can give him money, but it cannot replace him in completing the process of Legal Aid.

Back then, so many people wanted to slice open his stomach to see how many bowls of jelly noodles he had eaten, and now, after such a long time of effort, he has finally reached this point.

The law has procedures, and procedures represent justice; the necessary procedures must be followed!

Others spread rumors and then pat their butts and run away, while he, wanting to pursue Legal Aid, has to put in ten or a hundred times the effort.

However, he, Zhou Yi, is just a person who takes things seriously. Even if it is troublesome, he must pursue Legal Aid to the end. This world lacks people who present facts and reason; he, Zhou Yi, is willing to be that person!

The evidence personally organized by Fang Dazhuang is all proof that their personal information was misappropriated and that the other party is suspected of criminal activity.

In a large commercial vehicle, Qin Daye and the others were already waiting.

"Mr. Zhou, once we go report to the police this time, we'll be fine, right?" Qin Aiguo asked.

There are quite a few of them coming this time; after all, there is reimbursement.

"Of course, but they might need to understand the situation from you later. You can go back if you want, or you can continue to hang out in Jingzhou."

That settled it, and the group went directly to the Zhonglou Police Station.

Entering the Police Station felt just like coming home. What a coincidence, Lao Zhou was on duty here again, and his eyes nearly popped out when he saw Zhou Yi.

"Why are you here again? Let me tell you, the overtime we've had this year is too severe, you know? I can't take it anymore. Can't you go report the case to another police station?" Lao Zhou said.

Of course, this was a joke; he is already very familiar with Zhou Yi, and people's police are people too.

"Hey, Uncle Zhou, isn't it that the capable do more work? Besides, I'm not the one reporting the case today, it's them!"

As Zhou Yi spoke, he pointed to the group of old and young people behind him.

Lao Zhou looked at the group of people who were very reserved because they had entered the police station, sighed, and then turned to sit at his desk.

"Start!"

Qin Aiguo was already a bit dazed. This person really walked in as casually as if he were coming home; why does it feel like he isn't a good person...

But since he promised them, he had to do it!

Soon, Qin Aiguo and his group began to go through the procedures.

"So you are saying that your identity information was all misappropriated to register accounts, and then it also involved criminal activity, right?" Lao Zhou's brows furrowed.

These people looked like they were from all over the country on the surface, but they had commonalities: they were all elderly, had little education, and did not use the internet.

An old policeman like Lao Zhou quickly thought of another issue: with information being misappropriated like this, and having so many common points, was there any suspicion of buying and selling personal information involved? Could it be a gang?

No, this must be dug into deeply!

The process of reporting to the police went very smoothly, but that doesn't mean a Case Filing happens immediately. Lao Zhou and the others began their review, and the content of the review was the evidence provided by Fang Dazhuang.

First, to prove the existence of Defamation; perhaps this Criminal Private Prosecution lawsuit might not be won, because for the elderly side, there are too many points of contention.

But what is needed is not the verdict itself, but the fact that there is defamatory behavior and that the situation of Defamation already exists!

Second is to prove that the elderly people's identity information was misappropriated. As long as such an Evidence Chain is formed in the logic, then a Case Filing can be made.

After several hours of review, the elderly and their families were informed that the review had passed and the Case Filing was now complete!

So now there is nothing left for them to do; next, they just need to wait peacefully for the Public Security Department to conduct the investigation.

By using the posting time, device information, and other content to have Zhalang and the operators cooperate to locate IP and other information, this is not something ordinary people can do, but for the Public Security Department, it is very easy to handle.

Especially now, with the country's increasingly strict management of personal information, and with Xiaodi having been fined over eight billion, the fact that there is still such unscrupulous misappropriation of others' information for illegal and criminal activities is simply a provocation!

Needless to say, they must be hit hard!

Zhalang, on the other hand, has had a very difficult time recently. Although Zhou Yi did not take the initiative to spread the news, there is no wall that doesn't let the wind through. He sued Zhalang and obtained the information of the relevant people from Zhalang, but the results were all old men and old women; this news has already spread.

At that time, it shocked a bunch of people on the internet!

To be honest, everyone usually learns about so-called Defamation and Insult and other Criminal Private Prosecutions through A Yi's videos. Before this, many people didn't even know about these things.

Things like "criminal cases that are only accepted upon complaint"—that one has to go sue for criminal cases themselves—are things some people simply didn't know.

So after the previous few times of Legal Aid, everyone thought that with A Yi's serious personality, he would definitely file a Lawsuit, and then they would know who was real and who was fake.

However, just as the news came out, one side deleted their account and ran away, and A Yi didn't have any news either, so not many people cared about this matter anymore.

But unexpectedly, news came out from this side again: A Yi filed a Lawsuit, and the people behind these accounts turned out to be seventy or eighty-year-old men; even a fool wouldn't believe that.

Consequently, Zhalang was blasted, with people saying, "You guys do Real-name Registration every day, but what's the use? People are still misappropriating information."

If it were just being blasted a few times, it wouldn't matter; the platform had already been blasted to pieces anyway. But the country is now vigorously rectifying the buying and selling of personal identity information, so this is a problem.

Coupled with the fact that Zhou Yi filed a Lawsuit on the grounds that Zhalang's review was not strict, seeking compensation for Tort, there are just too many things like this...

However, under such circumstances, the Netizens on the internet still sighed, thinking A Yi is probably going to fall this time.

Isn't that right? You racked your brains to file a Lawsuit and a Private Prosecution, wanting to send people inside, only to find out the person behind it is an eighty-year-old man; what are you going to do?

And those big Vs who were fanning the flames before have now deleted their Weibo posts, not mentioning a word about the previous matter, as if such a thing never happened; what would you think?

It was only because the Internet Violence Lawsuit had an effect that no one dared to curse Zhou Yi and Fang Dazhuang directly.

"Keep taking things seriously; I said if he keeps taking things seriously like this, someone will eventually scheme against him. Look, didn't you say the law is useful? Why don't you go pursue Legal Aid?"

"Why isn't A Yi talking anymore? It's been so long; he's not planning to stop posting videos, right? This is the result of Setting a Persona. Look at those celebrities who set a persona; which one of them can have a good ending?"

Such similar strange remarks have already appeared. Although the impact is not great, it is disgusting to look at.

Zhou Yi's audience members refuted them, but they were even more curious: why is there still no movement?

The answer is that there is simply no movement. Everyone who has experienced Legal Aid knows that the most unbearable thing in Legal Aid is not these expenses or those expenses, but the time that is so long it makes many people despair.

Taking the legal route is a very reasonable thing, but Zhou Yi and Fang Dazhuang had discussed before that in daily life, if you don't have much time and money to fight lawsuits, to file various Lawsuits, and to straighten out various relationships through legal channels, then there is only one best way, which is to let others come to you!

At that time, Fang Dazhuang even gave Zhou Yi an example, saying that a landlord rented his house to a tenant, and then one day, on a whim, he went to look at his house, only to find a family he had never seen before living inside.

And it has already been lived in for quite a while.

One originally thought the tenant was just subletting, but one didn't expect that person to have sold his house directly.

Was the title transferred? Of course not; the property deed was still in his own hands, but because the house price was cheap, this family bought it.

Daring to pay money without a title transfer—are there such foolish people in society? Of course there are.

Then the question arises: what should he do? That tenant can no longer be found, and as the saying goes, at times like this, you simply cannot find someone who is intentionally hiding through your own personal ability!

If you look at it through legal channels, it seems you can directly sue the family living there and make them move out, but they can argue that they spent money to buy it, and you will fall into a quagmire of bickering.

But if you tell them to go find that tenant, it's also hard to handle, because they basically can't find them, and they won't necessarily go looking; they think, "Anyway, I'm living here and I've paid the money, so this is our house."

What to do? First, call the police and say your house has been forcibly occupied. The Police Station won't interfere when they respond, because it's clearly a civil dispute at a glance, but what you want is the record of this police report.

After that, go find a locksmith Company, record the whole process to keep evidence, and move the other party's things out one by one, because you have the property deed; in our country, real estate is a registration system, and the property deed is the embodiment of real estate rights!

At this time, this family will start cursing; they will make a scene with you, but regarding a house, if you have the property deed and are still living there, then no one has the right to kick you out.

Then, this family can only choose to call the police, saying they were defrauded. At this time, the police have to handle it, and it is much easier for the police to find someone than it is for you.

Is this family wronged? Very wronged; they spent money to buy a house but can't move in, but you dared to pay for a house without a title transfer—you are wronged, but you are not *that* wronged!

This method shifts the identity of the victim.

This has the same effect as the practice of forcibly stopping mortgage payments, because the individual is always the weaker party... of course, if the bank is the vulnerable group, then it's fine.

This is a piece of advice that Lawyers won't say in legal practice but will give you privately: in many places, letting others come to find you is much more reliable than you going to find others.

Therefore, law and legal practice are two different things; in reality, protecting your rights according to the law does not mean you have to go and file a Lawsuit.

This includes Zhou Yi's approach this time, except he had pre-arranged it with the other party, and the issue between the two sides was not the house, so everything was easy to talk about.

The police have already begun their investigation; just as Lawyer Fang said, it is much faster for them to find someone than for you to go through all the trouble to sue the "Scum Wave."

It didn't even take three days before they had locked onto the criminal suspects!

No other reason; this gang is right in Jingzhou, a new type of Internet Water Army that appeared after the previous ones were caught.

They use some relatively ambiguous remarks to set the narrative, and then add fuel to the fire.

Once the narrative is set, they delete their accounts and run; because the accounts they use are all "three-no" burner accounts, even if the other party is serious and thinks about a Criminal Private Prosecution, it is impossible to find them.

Not to mention that no one had ever been serious before.

They have set the narrative many times, such as how this celebrity is, how that internet celebrity is; even if they delete the account and run away in the end, the narrative is already set, and Self-Proving Innocence is just a joke.

So their courage grew larger and larger; this time, someone paid them to set the narrative against A Yi and that Fang Xujing, and they agreed without even thinking.

No matter how capable you, A Yi, are, can you still find us?

Fengyun Internet Media Company—this is the name of the gang.

Their Internet Water Army is now standardized; hanging the sign of a media Company makes it convenient to do things and convenient to collect money.

After all, compared to personal accounts, Company accounts are more convenient.

Of course, these people at Fengyun Media Company have no idea that the police have already locked onto them, and they are currently preparing to set the narrative through other burner accounts.

That's right, those strange remarks from before were all posted by them; after all, what normal person would care about how an internet celebrity is? If you scroll past it, you look at it; if you don't scroll past it, it just passes.

Even Zhou Yi's audience wouldn't jump out to speak for no reason.

February 21st, sunny; suitable for arrests, court sessions, executions, and Appeals; avoid visiting graves, welcoming brides, and weddings.

The boss of Fengyun Media Company, Chen Feng, is on the phone.

Their Company is very small, with only seven or eight people, and they are all very young; because they are young, they are bold and dare to do things others dare not do.

"Wife, my plan is, after this order is finished, I won't do it anymore; I'll take you and Yueyue to travel abroad, go on vacation—I've been too tired these years."

It's not that I'm quitting after finishing this order, I just feel that no matter how much money you earn, you have to spend it to call it money; otherwise, if I collapse, then this money will just benefit others.

Setting the narrative against A Yi is just a business for them; there is no emotion involved, just collecting money to do the job—it's that simple.

Of course, Manager Chen does not know that the relevant departments are preparing to arrest them immediately; they are just a small fish, and the goal is to dig deep into the criminal gang behind them that buys and sells personal information!

This is what was mentioned before: the Public Security Bureau maintains order, and if they want to strike, they will strike the whole line!

So when Manager Chen saw several police officers in uniform in front of him showing their IDs, he was a bit stunned.

"Chen Feng, right? ID number..."

"Comrade, I am Chen Feng; what is this, what is going on?" Chen Feng said hurriedly.

On the phone, his wife was also asking what happened, and Chen Feng quickly said: "It's nothing, nothing; some Public Security comrades are looking for me, it should be fine, I'm hanging up now."

After hanging up the phone, he saw the Silver Bracelets already revealed on the opposite side.

This is a crime that has already been investigated clearly, and the basic situation is clear; taking him back is mainly to open a breach from him regarding the team that buys and sells citizen information.

"You know in your heart what you have done; buying and selling citizen identity information, and using others' identity information to commit criminal acts—do I still need to say it?"

*Bang! * Chen Feng, who had just stood up, was shocked: "Comrade, comrade, that's not it! I didn't buy or sell anyone else's identity information, nor did I use others' identity information to commit criminal acts!"

"No? Are accounts like 'Sunrise in the East' and 'Tang Monk Washes Hair and Loves Rejoice' not yours? I guess you forgot names like Qin Hong and Chu Erdan, thinking that using others' identity information and mobile phone numbers to register accounts would be fine?"

"You set the narrative everywhere on the internet, ruining others' reputations, and then delete your accounts and run away—do you think you didn't do anything wrong?"

As police officers, they extremely hate this kind of behavior; just because of their few words, others might have to pay ten or a hundred times the effort to Self-Prove Innocence, and even then, few people are willing to listen.

Chen Feng was speechless, with only one thought in his heart: how did they find him!

He thought he would be very tough, and he believed he wasn't committing a crime—it was just setting a narrative, what's the big deal? There are so many people setting narratives on the internet.

So he started to argue with the case-handling police, but they couldn't be bothered to say anything and just started putting on the Silver Bracelets.

"No, comrade, this, this doesn't comply with regulations, right? I didn't commit a crime; why are you using Handcuffs? I'm just a media Company, reporting on some things."

But after the Silver Bracelets were put on, his emotions collapsed a bit, and snot and tears flowed out together: "Comrade, I, my child at home is only one year old; we just did this to earn some money, we really didn't mean to commit a crime..."

Everyone else in the Company was arrested; it could almost be said that they were all caught in one net.

Zhou Yi, who was at home, received a call from Lao Yang; that criminal gang had all been caught, and this time the Propaganda Department would continue to cooperate with him to film a video for publicity.

Of course, it is to wait for the police to dig out the team behind the buying and selling of personal information.

Zhou Yi had no objections; after accepting the relevant materials, he let the company's "workhorses" start preparing the video.

Time passed quickly, and the Public Security Bureau moved even faster; through the information from Chen Feng's team and several other teams, they soon found the gang behind the buying and selling of personal information, which was also a Company.

They used an app under the Company to excessively collect information and then resell it; now, everything is finally complete.

After receiving a call from Lao Yang, Zhou Yi uploaded the video, which had already been reviewed by the Propaganda Department.

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In Hanbei Province, thirteen-year-old Fang Miao was bored at home scrolling through videos; the winter break in the north is very long, and the key is that her favorite Up Master, A Yi, hadn't posted a video in a long time.

Many people even felt that A Yi had either quit the internet or been caught by the law.

After all, his persona of being a stickler for details had been shattered, and the fact that the person he had spent so much effort finding turned out to be an old man led many to mock him for it.

Furthermore, they began spouting their theories again: one shouldn't be too much of a stickler, and being a bit foolish is for the best.

Fang Miao did not like such rhetoric; one could even say that young people basically do not like this theory at all.

What does it mean that one shouldn't be a stickler and should just be a bit foolish? Why? Right is right, and wrong is wrong!

This is just like what the boss of a Company says: the Company provides you with a platform and learning opportunities, so you should be grateful to the Company; as for wages, that stuff isn't important, what's important is that you work hard!

This kind of wishy-washy, twisted logic—do they still intend to make young people accept it?

Sorry, this generation of young people really doesn't accept it, especially those born after 2000 like her.

Without A Yi's videos, she felt completely listless.

Just then, a notification popped up, and Fang Miao sat up at once; she had set it so that only A Yi's videos would trigger an alert!

She opened it quickly and discovered that a video had indeed been updated, with the title: "Happier still are the thousand-mile snows of Minshan, after the three armies have passed, all faces beam with joy."

Clicking on the video, she found the barrage comments from all sides were already extremely chaotic; it was clear that everyone was very surprised that A Yi would actually update a video!

A familiar voice rang out: "My dear viewers, I am your old friend A Yi, long time no see..."

A big chapter of over five thousand words, the first update today! Everyone, throw your tickets over here!

Additionally, it is still better not to conflate reality with fiction; in reality, for this kind of matter, you must be prepared to spend two or three years or even longer preparing for a lawsuit. The biggest cheat in the book isn't a system, but time acceleration...

Many book friends have been consulting me on QQ about labor disputes; I now suggest to everyone uniformly: do not be in such a rush to seek Arbitration. Case by case, things are different; specific cases require specific analysis. What you think is similar is just what you think. Companies really have many legal tactics, and you might not even win the Arbitration. Believe me, novels are for enjoyment, but in reality, everyone must be cautious. It is best to consult a Lawyer. Don't trust those internet-famous lawyers. Really, I have already seen two cases here where people trusted the advice given by a certain internet-famous lawyer, rashly filed for Labor Arbitration, and ended up failing... Be cautious!

Thanks to Manbo, Wenchidage, Feimaowuyu, "People Working at Night," and "Another Newbie" for the tips, thank you brothers.

(End of this chapter)