Chapter 501: Crazy, A Yi Has Gone Crazy

In Lincheng, Zhu Baojin was playing a game on his phone, letting out bursts of cursing from time to time.

"Damn it, four against one and still got counter-killed? Do you even know how to play!"

"Are you all elementary schoolers? Can you stop dragging the team down? What kind of trash are you playing!"

He was also one of those people who had been studying for civil service exams at home since graduating from university; of course, the crowd of people taking these exams is massive, and some are just looking for an excuse to sponge off their parents.

"Can you stop playing and actually read for a while? You really need to buckle down for this year's national exam. If you lose your status as a fresh graduate, it'll be even harder, you know!" Zhu Baojin's mother nagged from the side.

"Alright, I get it, can you stop being so annoying? I'm just playing for a bit..." Zhu Baojin roared.

His mother didn't dare say anything more; ever since he started studying for the civil service exams at home after graduation, her son's temper had become incredibly volatile.

Forget it; having just retrieved a package, Zhu Baojin's mother prepared to take a look at it.

As it turned out, she noticed one package was quite unusual at a glance. She opened it to see, and what met her eyes was a Summons.

What is this, a Summons?

How could this be? Someone in their family was actually being sued; that shouldn't be right!

She hurriedly picked it up to look, and Zhu Baojin's mother was instantly stunned, because the name of the Defendant written there was clearly her own son's name.

After browsing through it briefly, it appeared her son had defamed someone online, and now that person had filed a Civil Litigation against him.

"Baojin, come over here and look at this. This—how did you get sued!"

Zhu Baojin put down his phone with an impatient look, but his heart suddenly began to race. I'm being sued?

He took the package and looked it over. It was true; he had been sued by that A Yi. The Court had already sent a Summons, a Copy of the Complaint, and other materials.

No, what is going on? Didn't Lao Niu Finance specifically analyze that it was impossible for A Yi to file large-scale Litigation again?

How could he have received a Summons?

Zhu Baojin's mother was already panicking; after all, in a normal household, they had never had any dealings with the Court in their daily lives.

Seeing the Summons now, she felt completely unwell.

"Baojin, what's going on? Why are you being sued? What exactly did you say? Tell me, you're worrying me to death!"

After reading it, Zhu Baojin felt slightly relieved and said, "What's there to worry about? I just said the wrong thing, and he felt I infringed on his Right of Reputation, so he just sued."

"It's nothing. It's just a Civil Litigation. At most, I'll just have to pay some money and apologize."

People had specifically studied A Yi's large-scale Litigation. Unless you had truly offended him deeply, generally speaking, if you had a good attitude, even in a Criminal Private Prosecution, he would choose Mediation and withdraw the case.

If it's a Civil Litigation, it's even less of a big deal—just paying money and apologizing.

Although he was somewhat afraid of the situation of being sued, Zhu Baojin was still stubborn.

Besides, it really wasn't a big deal. Young people, you know, just felt after reading those online analyses that A Yi's seriousness was nothing much.

So, after the initial fear, Zhu Baojin tossed the materials aside and started playing his game again.

"You make it sound so easy. Paying money—look, they're asking for thousands! I told you, instead of studying properly, you just go online and spout nonsense!"

Zhu Baojin's mother said, feeling very distressed, yet her son had picked up his phone again, as if he had already dived back into it, not listening to her at all.

In truth, a Civil Litigation is just that; there are no Punitive Damages, so it can only be handled according to the standard regulations.

A thousand, two thousand, three thousand—once they had some mental preparation, some people really stopped taking it seriously.

Therefore, for matters similar to Defamation and Insult, it would involve administrative Detention and fines.

And if you have similar behavior within two years, regardless of whether you have reached the Criminal Case standard, it will be handled as a criminal matter across the board.

Because of this, Zhu Baojin didn't think there was anything to worry about.

As it turned out, before he could even lie down to start another game, his phone suddenly rang. He checked the caller ID; it was an unfamiliar number, a landline.

It was the kind of landline number where the last three digits were 110.

"Hello, who is this... What? From the Zhangbei Police Station?"

Hearing this, Zhu Baojin's mother froze for a moment, then listened with a nervous expression.

"Zhu Baojin, right? You are now required to come to the Zhangbei Police Station to accept an investigation..."

Listening to the voice on the phone, Zhu Baojin was completely dumbfounded. How could he be required to go to the Police Station for an investigation out of the blue?

Subconsciously, he said, "Who knows if you guys are scammers..."

The person on the phone seemed to chuckle, then proceeded to educate him on the law: you defamed others online, so you need to come in for an investigation.

If you don't come in for an investigation, we will go to your home to summon you.

When it reached this point, Zhu Baojin became nervous. Just as the other party said, if it were fake, a trip to the Police Station would just count as legal education.

If it weren't fake, then you should go even more. Besides, they had also said that this kind of number generally cannot be spoofed.

Putting down the phone, Zhu Baojin looked at his mother beside him, unable to say a word.

"What's going on? Is it that thing from the internet earlier? Didn't you say it was just paying money? Why do you have to go to the Police Station!"

Having never had the experience of being called to a Police Station, anyone would be nervous upon receiving such a call out of the blue.

"Yes, it's that matter. They said I must go, and if I don't, they'll come find me..."

Forget it, let's just go. Maybe they're really just going to educate me. You see news online all the time about people being called to the Police Station to receive education.

After tidying up, Zhu Baojin went out with his mother; she was a mother who couldn't rest easy, feeling that her son was still just a child.

There's no helping it; many families are like this. Before their children are married, they all feel they are still small... completely unaware that in other families, someone of this age could already be the head of a household.

Soon, Zhu Baojin arrived at the Zhangbei Police Station, and Lao You began the investigation.

In fact, there was almost nothing that needed investigating; the evidence provided by that handsome guy who reported the crime was too sufficient—it was rock solid.

Then, Zhu Baojin froze.

"What? I—I might be subject to Administrative Detention? This—on what grounds? I've already been sued!"

Although compared to going to prison, Administrative Detention doesn't seem to have as much of a deterrent effect, for those who have never been inside, the threat is still quite significant.

At the very least, right now, Zhu Baojin was completely dumbfounded. He truly never dreamed that for such a trivial matter, he would be facing both a lawsuit for Defamation of Reputation and Administrative Detention?

Are you kidding me!

Seeing the other party's expression, Lao You's face turned serious: "We are not joking with you; we have already obtained sufficient evidence, so it depends on your situation."

Administrative Detention is, after all, an Administrative Penalty, so generally speaking, it must primarily focus on Mediation.

Of course, Mediation does not mean you can completely avoid spending a few days inside; it just depends on the circumstances—for example, if you were originally going to be under Detention for three days, but after Mediation, it might just be a fine and that's it.

But if you were originally going to be under Detention for fifteen days, even after you go through Mediation, it might only be reduced slightly, perhaps becoming ten days, or maybe five.

This also does not fall under the rule of "no double jeopardy"; Defamation of Reputation is a provision of the Civil Code and belongs to Civil Law tort damages.

Whereas Administrative Detention is a provision of the Public Security Administration Punishments Law and belongs to an Administrative Penalty.

Consequently, Zhu Baojin was in for a tragedy.

Listening to Lao You's words, he truly wished he could go back to the moment he was running his mouth and slap himself twice.

"Comrade, I was truly wrong. I just saw everyone else saying it, so I followed along and said a few things, and then I deleted them. I really didn't do it on purpose..."

There were many cases similar to Zhu Baojin's; as Tenda began reporting to the police in a comprehensive manner, Netizens in many places received calls from the Police Station.

Just as Zhou Yi thought, if you go to report a crime with empty words, whether they investigate or not really depends on the situation; if police resources are sufficient, they will certainly investigate, but if the jurisdiction is busy during that time, then they simply cannot get to it.

However, if you go to report a crime with collected evidence, regardless of whether it is a Criminal Case or an administrative case, it can basically be said that very few people will ignore it.

It's an achievement delivered to their doorstep; who would refuse that!

It's just like when soldiers are out on a training march and see someone committing a Robbery in front of them—you tell me what they would do? They would charge forward faster than anyone else!

I guarantee the person committing the Robbery would also be stunned: "I'm just robbing something, it shouldn't be enough to mobilize an entire division of troops to catch me, right..."

The most important thing is that the Litigation documents were also served, so just like Zhu Baojin, many people received a Court Summons and a call from the Police Station at the same time...

"Returning to the country next week": Holy crap, is A Yi crazy? I received a Court Summons today, and then I received a call from the Police Station telling me I might even face Detention!

"What is going on? How did it suddenly turn into this? Didn't they say A Yi wouldn't take things seriously? How come the scale of what he's doing now is even bigger than before!"

This Netizen, who had previously constantly praised Niu Hong, was one of them; it could be said he was extremely miserable.

Of course, this was not the most miserable part; the most miserable were those who were directly arrested and those who received a Private Prosecution Summons for a Criminal Case.

The former at least had a result, while the latter were truly living in constant fear because they didn't know when they would have to go inside!

In Qingshan County, Feng Yongwu looked at the Private Prosecution Summons for a Criminal Case in his hand with a blank expression, and once the blankness passed, he began frantically searching for his previous posting records.

They were indeed all deleted, but there were some screenshots.

But he couldn't figure out why, no matter what; he had clearly posted anonymously!

Moreover, this social media app was really very niche; it could be said that very few people knew about it.

He just said some random things on such an app, and it was anonymous too—and he still got found out?

Damn it, A Yi must be crazy!

On the other side, in Modu, Xiang Guangyuan was even more miserable than him.

Because what showed up at his door wasn't a Summons, but the police officers.

"Me? Defamation? No, comrades, did you make a mistake? How could I possibly commit defamation? I don't even say a word online."

Xiang Guangyuan tried hard to argue there because he truly didn't think he had any problems; he had long forgotten about the times he stirred up trouble in various livestream rooms.

However, the police comrades did not explain; they were truly exhausted from coming out to catch people this time, even though the Guangming District Court had already been very selective and tried to arrest as few as possible.

But... there were indeed quite a few serious cases that could potentially lead to a sentence of Fixed-term Imprisonment or higher.

Therefore, according to the regulations, all of them had to be arrested.

Many people were caught off guard when they were arrested, feeling that they had no problems at all and that everything had been deleted.

There were even more who didn't need to be arrested but were still suspected of committing crimes; it is foreseeable that, at the very least, no one will dare to curse others online for the next few days.

In the Imperial Capital, Niu Hong woke up from a sleep and was stunned looking at the news online.

Because overnight, the trending topics online had become "A Yi is on a rampage"!

Quite a few familiar accounts were complaining there, saying they had received a Court Summons.

Those who received a Private Prosecution Summons started crying and complaining directly.

Of course, more people were cursing him, Niu Hong, saying he didn't know a damn thing and was just analyzing randomly.

"Lao Niu, get out here! What kind of person are you? Didn't you say A Yi wouldn't file a large-scale Lawsuit? The scale of his actions this time is even bigger than before!"

"Damn it, come out quickly! Speak up! 'Professional,' professional my ass! I'm about to go inside, it's all your fault!"

These accounts were all very familiar; looking closely, they were all people who had previously praised him in the comments section in various ways, and some he had even chatted with.

As a result, now, they were cursing him directly in the same comments section.

Niu Hong was dumbfounded.

The second update is here!

(End of chapter)